Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McCain dismissively referred to Barack Obama as a "young man," attacking his inexperience. Not McCain's best issues, so by not losing, he wins. Both McCain and Obama are taking seriously the task of selecting a running mate, launching confidential inquiries headed by old Washington hands A.B. Culvahouse and Jim Johnson, respectively. McCain hosted three prospects (former rival Mitt Romney, Florida governor Charlie Crist and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal) at his ranch and avoided unseemly leaks or accusations of pandering. Obama faces pressure to choose opponent Hillary Clinton, a tangle he'd rather avoid. Obama paused his nomination battle with...
...Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the policy's official name) offered a college scholarship to all those who had served in uniform, whether or not they had fought on the front lines. In the decades since, benefits have fallen far behind the cost of university tuitions, prompting Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel to draft a new GI Bill that would offer soldiers full tuition at any state school...
...sponsoring the tour. “Not all laws are just laws.” The “Right to Serve” tour’s method of protest is modeled after the sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. “Jim Crow and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are equally morally reprehensible,” Reitan said. “The manner [in which] we confront them should be the same.” The group hopes to encourage Republican Senator Susan...
...aisle spent as much time asking him about Iran as they did about Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut grilled Petraeus on Iran's anti-U.S. activities in the region. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii plaintively asked about the utility of negotiations with Iran. And Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia pressed Petraeus on what he meant by the need to "counter malign Iranian influence" and the "consequences for its illegitimate influence in the region...
...brain. Still, Kennedy is an unparalleled force in the Senate, an engine for legislation that makes him - if judged by legislative productivity alone - the most important senator this half-century. Kennedy "has never felt that compromise is a dirty word and smart Republicans have recognized that," said Jim Manley, Reid's communications director...