Word: repping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton ordered the investigation after Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) received an anonymous letter last Tuesday from an informant in the National Security Agency. The letter alleged that U.S. intelligence officials were covering up their involvement in the Harbury case...
...Senate today made Kansas Rep. Dan Glickman secretary of agriculture in a 94-0 vote. Glickman succeedsMike Espy, who stepped down last year after revelations that he got favors from firms doing business with the agency. Glickman last year lost his bid for re-election to a 10th House term...
...acknowledged that adivided House GOPcannot pass it without help from Democrats. "If we get half the Democrats, we will pass the term limits constitutional amendment," Gingrich said. He also predicted that more than 85 percent of GOP lawmakers would vote for it, even though some senior Republicans oppose what Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who has served since 1975, called a "dumb idea." Republican leadership sources say that roughly 190-200 GOP members and about 40 or 50 Democrats would vote for term limits, far short of the 290 needed to send the bill to the Senate...
...bill, which would scrap 45 programs for the poor in favor of few-strings-attached grants to the states, proposes the most fundamental change in the American social contract sinceFDR. "We are sweeping away a destructive system and we are putting in a system that can work," said Rep. Clay Shaw (R-Fla.). Among the basics to go: school lunches, foster care support and child care to the country's neediest women and children. Parents would be required to work after two years on welfare, and would be cut off from benefits after five years; all able-bodied food stamp...
Gingrich warmed up the crowd by calling New York City "the crown jewel of America," prompting Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to call him "Dr. Jekyll in New York and Mr. Hyde in Washington...