Word: repping
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...Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is currently the only declared Republican candidate. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), former Gov. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Sen. Richard Lugar(R-Ind.), Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Cal.), commentatorPatrick J. Buchanan, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)and former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin will alsolikely vie for the nomination...
...with Wall Street firms, insurance companies and other financial service providers. It would repeal several federal restrictions, including the Depression-era Glass Steagall Act, which forbids banks from underwriting securities or selling insurance. Banks for years have been seeking a repeal of Glass-Steagall. Their efforts were blocked by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), who chaired the House Energy and Commerce Committee until the Republicans took control of Congress last month. A Dingell staffer told TIME Daily that the congressman's top concern is to make sure any reforms include protective "firewalls" to prevent federally insured deposits from being used...
Crimson Reader Rep Concedes Errors, Clarifies Procedures...
...problem only marginally relates to abortion. Any nominee Clinton selected who had performed even one abortion would have been assailed by Religious Right organizations such as the Christian Coalition and the National Clergy Council, but that is to be expected. Rep. Nita Lowey, chair of the House Pro-Choice Task Force, was correct when she said in a news conference this week that "the idea that performing a legal, medical procedure could even possible disqualify Dr. Foster is an outrage," but it is certainly understandable that anti-abortion groups might subscribe to that idea...
...reverting to Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many of his ideas about how to handle Cuba from Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), a Cuban emigre who happens to be a distant cousin, and sworn enemy, of Fidel. Castro is, of course, used to such threats from the north. In an interview withTIME Managing Editor James R. Gainesand other editors that took place before Helms made his comment...