Word: neill
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Shannon's announcement last Thursday was quickly followed by an endorsement from Cambridge Congressman and Speaker of the House Thomas P O'Neill Jr. (D-Cambridge). Since his election to the House in 1978. Shannon has been widely regarded a protege of O'Neill...
...word bipartisan appeared seven times in the President's State of the Union address last week, but the decision to stress a new spirit of cooperation apparently did not reach the White House guards. When Tip O'Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely...
...noise will be loudest about Lebanon. O'Neill last week claimed that half of the 123 Democrats who voted in September to allow the Marines to stay in Lebanon for 18 months would now vote to bring them home. He predicted that a resolution to that effect would reach the House floor in about a month. Though Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker insists that his Republicans will back the President, many are restlessly eyeing opinion polls favoring withdrawal. "There is a lot of discontent on our side," says G.O.P. Senator William Cohen of Maine. Still, few Congressmen want...
...much better off we would be if Reagan had buried partisanship back in the summer of 1981 and taken Speaker Tip O'Neill's budget compromise, which would have held down the deficits that now threaten to bury us. How much better off we would be if Reagan had muted his ire at the Soviet Union and heeded the public's nuclear-arms concerns...
With interest, she now owed the state more than $200. The startling results have inspired Native Son Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the House, to call for a congressional study of a federal tax amnesty program...