Word: largent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sports 'legends', you say? Outside of NFL Hall-of-Famer Steve Largent, try ESPN's Harold Reynolds, Gaylord Perry's brief stay with the Mariners, or Franco Harris' final season in the NFL. You can count them all on one hand...
...reform; eventually life would return to its rhythms and routines, things would slow down, chairmen would take more power. But they hadn't counted on the reactions of the newest recruits, whose political lives began with Gingrich's call to arms. Mark Neumann stopped building houses in Wisconsin, Steve Largent quit his business in Oklahoma, Scarborough stopped trying cases in Florida, and they all ran for Congress. With no institutional memory, they showed up on the Capitol steps, promising purification. They don't know how to go back to the old way, because for them there never was such...
Trouble began when Oklahoma's Steve Largent, a pro-football Hall of Famer and star of the 1994 freshman class, suggested on television that the Speaker step aside until he could resolve the current ethics investigation of him. Soon other members of Congress were joining in, as were some influential conservative thinkers, including Paul Weyrich, the television talk show host...
...Steve Largent (R-Neb.) skipped the Harvard seminar because the Heritage Foundation invited him first, according to his press secretary...
...conservative Christian and "family-values" Republican, Largent has strong support in the First, home to Oral Roberts University. The district contains major McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International facilities, and Largent is a staunch defender of the defense budget, even supporting a military exemption from budget cuts. He also sponsored the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act to give parents control over when and how their children are exposed to sex education and condom distribution in schools...