Word: leader
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Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said Bush told Senate Republicans yesterday he might ask Congress to approve lesser raises for the judges and executives...
Wright said he has been in touch with Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) on a common approach that would be needed to send legislation rescinding the raise to Bush...
...vote and Wright's subsequent announcement came after Majority Leader Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), presiding over yesterday's session, refused to recognize a pay-raise opponent who wanted to introduce a resolution calling for a vote on the hike...
Bush's plan for the first weeks of his presidency is essentially a holding action. He has invited Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to Washington this week for the first meeting with a foreign leader. Bush will visit Korea and the People's Republic of China after attending the Feb. 24 funeral of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. Before then, the President will pop up to Canada on Feb. 10, the day after he delivers his budget speech on Capitol Hill. Explained a senior official: "We're getting out of town...
...Gentleman from the New York Times calling out to House Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Leader Tom Foley, who have just visited President Bush at the White House: "Come on over here and dump on them." Recall Lyndon Johnson's characterization of this singular capital: "A lot of people just love to feel bad in this city, everybody attacking everybody else, always telling you why you can't or shouldn't do something you ought to. The way up seems to be to chop somebody else down...