Word: ohio
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...Enemies List. The Washington Times disclosed the existence of the "supersecret" computer system on its front page, next to an article about the FBI Fileflap. Aha! The White House really is keeping tabs on people like reporters, corporate executives and members of Congress. G.O.P. leaders pounced. John Boehner of Ohio, the fourth ranking Republican in the House, branded the system "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer funds." Other wags were eager to call it Datagate...
...campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, President Clinton congratulated Russian president Boris Yeltsin and called for national unity on America's birthday: "This is a day when all Americans put aside business and political differences. Even though we take the blessings of liberty for granted, millions of people around the world would give anything to share them," Clinton said. The President noted that in a heartening endorsement of the new Russian democracy, two-thirds of eligible Russian voters had gone to the polls Wednesday. He also took time to claim credit for the continued robust growth in the U.S. economy...
...John Boehner (R-Ohio), in a letter to President Clinton about the discovery that the White House has been keeping computer files on more than 200,000 people, including legislators, donors and reporters...
Sometimes Washington is actually as unseemly as people imagine. Take the case of John Boehner. A year ago, the Ohio Congressman handed thousands of dollars of tobacco-industry campaign checks to half a dozen Republican colleagues right on the House floor. And if that weren't bad enough, Democratic leaders cut short the very press conference they had called to criticize him. Why? Reporters, knowing that Democrats had done the same, were turning their questions on them...
...party or attends a "unity rally," which, aides contend, is really different from a "Dole rally" because unity rallies focus on promoting other Republican candidates. Dole's travel last Thursday was almost completely arranged by the party because he attended a fund raiser on a paddle boat on the Ohio River, a "unity rally" at the landing in Louisville, Kentucky, and later another "unity" barbecue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...