Word: phils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mark Buse, 35, has been doing that job for McCain for 17 years. He became so adept at rooting out legislative pork that McCain calls him "the Ferret." Listening to other staff members gossip on Monday afternoon, Buse picked up his first hint of trouble. Both McConnell and Texan Phil Gramm, another reform foe, were going to vote with Wellstone. Why would Gramm and McConnell vote with a liberal? Suddenly Buse understood: Wellstone's amendment was a poison pill, with the potential to kill the whole measure. He rushed to warn McCain...
...George W. Bush says he won't veto it. Phil Gramm says he won't filibuster it. Trent Lott says he wants a final vote on it Thursday night. And Tom Daschle says it's got a very good shot...
...those who can't get enough, check out Obsessionist No. 1, Phil Spector and the Ecstatic Moment on Time.com
...hearing, after eight years, "And now for the Democratic response." Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, standing next to each other, were bouncing up and down and looked like they would have hugged each other if they didn't think it would cause them to go to Hell. Meanwhile, Phil Gramm's body literally jiggled as he applauded. They just don't make cowboys the way they used to. Halfway through the speech, I realized that some guy named Dennis Hastert was sitting in Newt Gingrich's chair next to Dick Cheney, then I went back to ignoring...
...night: a big win for Steely Dan for their boring, old-school album "Two Against Nature." Grammy had passed over D'Angelo and Fiona Apple, sided with the bigoted but talented Eminem, and ended up with a winner that was several decades out of date. At an afterparty, Phil Selway of Radiohead suggested he was glad his band didn't win Album of the Year. "It was really Eminem's award. Nothing against Steely Dan, but people were expecting Eminem...