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...donation bases--Senator Mike DeWine, who made the issue his top priority after having to make a split-second decision to donate the organs of his 22-year-old daughter killed in a car accident in 1993; Senator Bill Frist, a surgeon who actually did transplants; and Representative Joe Moakley, who walks the halls of Congress thanks to a donated liver--will launch National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week and celebrate the fact that this year, for the first time, 70 million Americans will get donor cards along with their tax refunds...
...abuse the law by forcing employees who want overtime pay to accept comp time instead. "In the real world, if your boss tells you to take time off instead of getting extra pay, you either do what you are told or you start packing your gear," warned Representative Joe Moakley, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Upon the bill's passage, Republican Representative Jennifer Dunn of Washington responded, "For too long parents have had to choose between work and spending time with their children. That's a tragedy." Although President Clinton previously endorsed extending optional time off to private workers, he made...
Discussion was dominated by talk of the senator's work with State Rep. John Joseph Moakley (D-South Boston) to defeat New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's plans for a professional football stadium in their community...
...Moakley showed [Kraft] the meaning of a beer and a beating," Lynch said...
...Moakley, who has devoted his career to public service, is cut from the same mold as his old friend and mentor, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the former House Speaker. At age 15 Moakley volunteered for the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific. The journeyman politician hasn't fallen behind: in September, he introduced the Community On-Line Act, which would provide grants to community buildings that hook up to the Internet...