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...Amount Oklahoma Congressman Steve Largent, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, made last year signing football cards...
...still don't want to get off on a rant here, but most of the shoulder pads in this stadium could run a better campaign than Al Gore, and I'm telling you, the last thing I want to see during halftime of a football game is Steve Largent in a suit going on about how every kid wants to grow up to be a football player. I mean, you meet a better class of people in prison, but I guess it's still better than being one of those a--holes in Washington. And speaking of the second half...
...House Chaplain." He was perturbed by Republican members' questions to him regarding, among other things, St. Paul's first letter to the disciple Timothy (which can be read to suggest that clerics should have children, a tricky point for celibate Catholics) and by a query from Steve Largent, a leader of the House's religious right, as to whether O'Brien thought his clerical collar would intimidate Representatives seeking his counsel. This was especially odd given that James Ford, the current, much beloved chaplain and a Lutheran, wears a collar...
...Largent, like the other Republicans, says he meant no anti-Catholic slight. "If this wasn't an election year," he says, "we wouldn't be discussing this." That may be; and Bush's sin was probably one of political necessity, not religious intolerance. However, both Largent, as a proponent of prayer in the schools, and Bush, who believes churches should be prominent distributors of government money, have a lot riding on the idea that believers of various creeds will lay aside their differences in the name of God and country. The past week or so may have given them...
...Guys Who Collect Coins: William Archer Jr. (R., Texas), collection value: $16,326; Steve Largent (R., Okla.), more than $30,000; Philip Crane (R., Ill.), more than $50,000; and Ronald Paul (R., Texas), more than...