Word: repping
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...example, take the ROTC Campus Access Act, which was introduced in Congress last month by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif). This bill would deny all federal monies, including funds for financial aid and scientific research, to universities like Harvard that refuse to allow ROTC programs to operate on campus. If passed and signed into law, Harvard would almost certainly have to reinstate ROTC on campus, because it depends so much on cash from Washington...
...from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared by a task force. It was the eleventh criminal charge to emerge from the 1992 "Rubbergate" scandal...
Other speakers included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Chuck Shumer (D-NY), head of the Farm Workers' Union Dolores Huerta, feminist leader Bella Abzug and representatives from several national minority groups. The speakers defined violence broadly, as everything from domestic abuse, rape and antiabortion crimes to economic violence. Economic violence, several speakers said, is the result of governmental policies which disadvantage women. Each made a personal appeal to the crowd to eradicate all these forms of violence...
...Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), the conservative firebrand who launched a bid for the GOP presidential nomination Thursday , isn't going to let his opposition to affirmative action get in the way of quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...
...House ethics committee agreed to investigate whether Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) violated his oath of secrecy by identifying aCIA sourceconnected with thedeath of an American citizen in Guatemala. Torricelli, whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House...