Word: repping
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...immigration reform. It's a highly unusual road show designed to get the Senate, which passed a plan to Bush's liking earlier this spring, closer to their more hard-line position. But a more subtle game may be afoot among Republicans, designed to strengthen the compromise plan of Rep. Mike Pence - first reported on TIME.com - that leans in the direction of the hard-line House; it would crank up border security, have a modest guest worker program and insist that illegals leave the country before reapplying for citizenship...
...movement that brings thousands of protesters to the school's gates each year - and that forced the 2001 name change because "School of the Americas" had become too notorious - has brought pressure on Capitol Hill as well. Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted on a measure sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, to remove the school's funding - 10 million taxpayer dollars annually - from the 2007 Foreign Operations budget. McGovern's amendment failed in a close vote, 218-188. "We will not go away on this," McGovern told TIME moments after the vote...
...that's nearly 700 lbs. more than some college-record holders can handle without rupturing blood vessels in their eyeballs? The reverend is standing firm on the claim, first made in a promo for his protein shake, although he added last week that he "did it one time, one rep" and moved the ton only a few inches. He also revealed why he got into leg pressing: bad knees...
...than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult rep arises not from who she is but whom she plays these days. Her characters went from frail to ferocious. In the first 15 of her 44 films, those made before she turned 40, Streep (who turns 57 this month) lost or gave up at least seven children, five husbands...
...greatest scrutiny will be of California's 50th congressional district, which is holding a special election to replace Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who pled guilty to bribery charges earlier this year. This is a solidly Republican district that Cunningham carried with more than 60% and President Bush carried by 11% in the last election. The mere fact that the Democratic challenger, Francine Busby, a school board member, has made the race competitive indicates the difficulties that Republicans could face in trying to retain control of the House this fall. The G.O.P. nominee, Brian Bilbray, is a former member of Congress...