Word: repping
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Depending on who you listen to, State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge) has been either a long-time advocate of tenant and worker rights or an ineffectual politician relying on the force of his personal popularity to stay in office...
...balance the budgetwithin seven years. The tactic, announced a day before House and Senate GOP leaders are due to unveil their respective budget cut proposals, is an attempt to draw Democrats into a potentially-explosive budget process that may include up to$300 million in Medicare cuts. Also today, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, advocated raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 in the next century, in tandem withSocial Security. It would be "crazy," said Thomas, to grant people Medicare benefits two years before they can collect full Social...
...Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) sharply criticized the first 100 days of the new Republican-controlled Congress in an afternoon speech yesterday at Boylston Hall...
...When I look at the Republicans, it is a fairlymean-spirited crowd," Kennedy said. "If youcombine [U.S. Sen.] Bob Dole (R-KA) or [U.S. Sen.]Phil Gramm (R-TX) as president, [U.S. Rep.] NewtGingrich (R-GA) as [House] Speaker and [U.S. Sen.]Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in the Senate, that is a verymean-spirited triumvirate...
...country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum procedures. He said the bill was so urgent his committee would try to send it to the full House as soon as possible. Rep. Charles Schumer, the chief sponsor of Clinton's bill, expects that "this bill will move like lightning through Congress...