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...such case is in Columbus, Ohio. For almost 14 years it had passed without comment that the local Congressman, John Kasich, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, stretches his paycheck by sharing a Virginia town house for the two or three nights a week that Congress is in session. His housemate? His male chief of staff. Last month Cynthia Ruccia, Kasich's Democratic challenger, called for a Justice Department investigation of what she said was "a serious appearance of impropriety" because Kasich, who is divorced, lived with someone whose government salary he controls...
Program alumni number about 200, including former representative Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton), Rep. Peter G. Torkildson (R-Hingham) and Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio...
...that he finally had one. As recently as three weeks ago, many G.O.P. lawmakers were less focused on the hope of winning the White House than on the fear of losing the Congress. And so last week was something of a spectacle of genuflection. House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich, as ruthlessly honest a budget cutter as they come, was calling himself a "supply-side deficit hawk" and gushing, "I love this program! I think it's a terrific program...
...Central has generally maintained a greater respect for its viewers' political intelligence. Rather than barrage us with easy laugh getters, like images of earnest delegates showing off Dole hand puppets, CC's commentators worked hard at the convention, managing to extract humor from sources as unlikely as Congressman John Kasich, who talked to correspondent Al Franken about his fondness for Alice Cooper...
...mail carrier, Kasich delivers his balance-the-budget message with both regularity and passion. "The enemy of the American people is the status quo," says the chairman of the House Budget Committee. "It takes us on the road to bankruptcy." Kasich (rhymes with basic) isn't afraid to tilt at the White House or at G.O.P. leadership in order to cut spending. Kasich, 44, could win John Glenn's Senate seat in '98, if he can live down the infamy of once getting thrown off the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. He is less a Deadhead, though, than...