Word: repping
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Washington's new power couple, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would...
...Rep. Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), speaker of the state House of Representatives, warned last week that the council had to send a petition to Beacon Hill by morning today to have a chance of preventing the complete abolition of rent control on January 1, when Question 9 takes effect...
...rocket-propelled grenades and train the Bosnian military. The price tag brought gasps of bipartisan congressional shock. "This is quite an eye-opener," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J.), while House Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) warned that the strategy could "Americanize the war." And Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House Speaker, said there was no way the Administration could spend that amount of money, "given the current budget constraints."Congress is simply playing right into Clinton's hand, explainsTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. Clinton has long been uneasy about U.S. military involvement...
After serving nearly 20 years in Congress, Rep. Phil Sharp (D-Ind.) will begin teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in February...
...with incoming GOP leaders. "We think we can get it done legislatively without going down the constitutional path," Deputy White House Counsel Joel Klein said. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich, nonetheless, plans to force a House floor vote on an amendment. But the tide may be turning against him. Rep. Bill Goodling (R-Pa.), incoming head of the House Education and Labor Committee, today indicated that he might oppose a plan to introduce prayer in schools: "I would oppose personally a one-size-fits-all mandated Christian prayer that everyone would recite aloud," he said, noting that he'd only...