Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political pep rally. White House officials had been complaining in recent weeks about what one top Democratic aide called "the failure of Democrats to crow about the economy." Fearful that lawmakers will be unprepared for criticism of the President's performance during the 12-day recess, the White House readied a 20-page guide on how to argue the President's case while visiting with voters back home. The list of accomplishments: lower inflation, a smaller deficit and a fairer tax code. "We're doing good," Clinton told his troops. "Tell them about...
...timing is excruciating. Rostenkowski has promised to unveil his outline of a health bill immediately after Congress's Memorial Day recess. Yet under the rules of the House Democratic Caucus, if a committee chairman is indicted for a felony punishable by more than two years in prison, he must cede his chairmanship, though not his committee membership. (He can return later if vindicated.) And so at precisely the moment when he planned to move Bill Clinton's most important legislation through the key House committee, the chairman might be stepping down in shame...
...from the monotony of the fall term. These islands of sanity amid a sea of midterm exams allow students to catch up on a problem set or a paper, or just catch their breath. The new calendar would bring no vacation until Thanksgiving, which would remain a two-day recess. Yale and Penn at least have either a week off for Thanksgiving or two days of fall break in October...
...Clinton and the First Lady will go back into campaign mode this week, visiting nine cities between them in just five days in a blitz of speeches, staged events and electronic town-hall meetings. The Clintons won't be alone. By the time Congress returns from its two-week recess next Monday, about 35 Cabinet members and other Administration officials will have taken part in 70 health-care events across the country. The goal behind this burst of activity: to hammer home five simple points about the President's health-care plan in language many Americans have not heard before...
With the Clintons away on vacation in California and Congress in recess, Washington's political temperature cooled down considerably. Administration officials capitalized on the break to put the clamor of Whitewater behind them and refocus on promoting the President's domestic agenda...