Word: karens
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...eight competitors also included Graduate School of Education student Karen Y. Jackson and Lowell House blockmates Marcia M. Turner '97 and Clarissa J. Ngo '97. Turner was the second runner-up in the competition...
Senate Republicans will not strip veteran Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) of his powerful Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Some GOP Senators were calling for Hatfield's head as retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders...
...George Pataki and other key Republicans in the state. That may give the Senate majority leader a virtual lock on the critically-important New York primary that will deliver 102 GOP delegates one year from today. "Dole has this near obsession with recruiting governors," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. In a recent TIME interview, she adds, Dole said: "Richard Nixon used to say he'd trade you 10 senators for one governor, because the governors are on the ground." The New York primary could also build campaign momentum: it is closely followed next March by the contests in California...
...Lott (R-Miss.) pointed out that his great-grandmother was a Chickasaw Indian. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wore a beaded Navajo tie. Democrats suggested Campbell should quit the Senate and submit himself to a special election to find out how voters feel about his switch. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's staff was surprised by Campbell's decision, but "they insist there are no other potential switchers out there...
...protect the Social Security trust fund from budget cuts. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) said the vote showed the Senate cannot shake its "addiction" to deficit spending. The amendment, which cleared the House, would have required the government to start balancing its budgets by 2002. TIME Congress correspondent Karen Tumulty says Dole hopes to muster enough support to approve it next year. "He's only going to hold another vote on it if he can win," says Tumulty...