Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call list varies night to night, but among the regulars are Tom Harkin of Iowa, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, John Breaux of Louisiana and Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the minority leader. Every morning the cycle starts again, with his focus back tightly on his job, the fat folder in chief of staff John Podesta's hands, with Clinton's scribbling on every page...
That job fell to Dale Bumpers, the four-term, just-retired Arkansas Senator who would come to the chamber to play the coda. The idea for his appearance, in fact, sprang from the Senate floor. Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin was troubled by how the Republican managers were like next-door neighbors who knew how to talk across the fence--even to Democrats. At the defense table, however, sat a bunch of strangers...
...ladling out federal largesse and making enough calls to the party faithful to put a telemarketer to shame. But while the Vice President lines up votes and money, Bradley remains a cipher, a candidate with no organization, even in battleground states like New Hampshire and Iowa. Democrats say they have little sense of him or his message. A new TIME/CNN poll shows Gore leading Bradley 44% to 12% among Democrats, with 54% of overall respondents saying they don't know who Bradley is (Dick Gephardt has better name recognition). Political operatives wonder how Bradley expects to raise the $20 million...
...scrutinized these and other "mandatory-minimum laws," the generic name for statutes forcing judges to impose designated terms. The studies are finding that the laws cost enormous amounts of money, largely to lock up such nonviolent folks as teenage drug couriers, dope-starved addicts and unfortunate offenders like the Iowa man who got 10 years for stealing $30 worth of steaks from a grocery store and then struggling with a store clerk who tackled him (the struggle made it a felony...
...Every now and again, we'd think, "What if we did do that?" You're in that After M*A*S*H scenario. Guys are in a meeting saying, "I think people would care about Radar and Klinger in Iowa." We saved ourselves from that...