Word: hydes
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...special forces in the siege ? Danforth had better decide quickly whether he's taking the job if he wants any of the good evidence to be left when he starts work. The House Committee on Government Reform (that?s Dan Burton?s boys), the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Henry Hyde ? oh no, not him again ? all have investigations of their own in the works. The founding fathers would be proud...
DIED. FRED TRUMP, 93, entrepreneurial builder and father of mogul Donald Trump--who credits much of his success to his dad; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The elder Trump began his career in the 1920s selling one-family homes, later moving on to lucrative New York City high rises...
...chill has settled over Hollywood on the subject of violence. Washington's attacks hit a fever pitch last week, as Republican Congressman Henry Hyde blasted "toxically poisoning" entertainment and tried but failed to get an amendment passed making it a crime to expose children to violent movies. Hollywood lobbyists continue to attack such efforts as a violation of the industry's First Amendment rights. Nevertheless, the Columbine High School shootings and the national kids-and-violence conversation it set off have left Hollywood in an unusually reflective mood...
What could possibly induce die-hard conservatives Bob Barr and Henry Hyde and confirmed liberals John Conyers and Barney Frank to pose together ?- holding hands in "go team!" style, no less ?- just four months after impeachment ended? Turns out it?s something like principles. The four former foes led the House of Representatives in a resounding rollback of the government?s right to confiscate the property based on pure suspicion ?- like nabbing someone carrying a lot of cash because he might be dealing drugs. "During impeachment, Judiciary Committee members would always say that their reputation for contentiousness was overblown, that...
Representative Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, has the most ambitious plan. It would ban sales of obscenely violent and explicitly sexual material to minors. Hyde also wants Congress to urge stores to make song lyrics available to parents before purchase. And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be. "There is a spiritual vacuum in these young people," he said last week, "that is filled with the culture of death and violence...