Word: repping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children." But eager Republicans, especially House freshmen, warned in return that Clinton would have to jump to their tune. "I think the train is way down the track on welfare and that the president is jumping on the caboose. But I'm happy to have him on board," said Rep. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), who will attend the high-level meeting of Congress members and governors.TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackmansays Clinton staffers are promising no proposals from the meeting. Instead, she says, Clinton will probably point to the summit later to claim bipartisan support for the two sides' common goals...
...didn't take long for the jokes to start percolating on Capitol Hill after President Clinton's unexpectedly lengthy and rambling State of the Union address . Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) described Clinton's address as "a great marching speech. It went left-right, left-right, left-right." Congressional Democrats said they were trying to figure out in whichdirection Clinton is trying to leadthem. "I could close my eyes and hear him talking about increasing opportunity but requiring responsibility," offered Sen. John Breaux (D-La.). Said conservative Democratic Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi: "He opposed every moderate effort...
Sherman said Nichols had received support from many of those politicians, including Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), Rep. Karen McCarthy, and Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan...
...woman who accused Rep. Mel Reynolds of Chicago of sexual misconduct now says she told prosecutors she was lying within days of her allegations, but that the Cook County prosecutors office pressured her into testifying against him anyway. In an interview published in today's Chicago Sun-Times, Beverly Heard said she made up the accusations because Reynolds made repeated phone calls to her house disrupting her relationship with another woman. Reynolds was charged in August with having sex with Heard while she was an underage campaign worker. During a court hearing Monday, attorney Reginald Turner, who said he represented...
...loved one die, is a replay of Osborne's witnessing the death of his father, an advertising copywriter in London. Jimmy's gibes at snooty relatives are Osborne's revenge on his barmaid mother Nellie Beatrice. Madeline, the lost love Jimmy pines for, is based on Stella Linden, a rep- company actress who first encouraged Osborne to write. At 21 he married actress Pamela Lane, whom he transformed with little rouge or camouflage into Alison. He photocopied Pamela's stoic bearing, her suspicious relatives, even her Dear John letter of farewell when she'd finally had enough...