Word: repping
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...most important question—what will there be to eat?—UC Rep Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who sits on the Lamont Café Committee (LCC), says to expect “nothing greasy, but mostly small prepackaged foods, bagels, sandwiches, things like that. Nothing that is really messy...
That was the winning bid made by a group of Currier House seniors at their HoCo’s Dutch auction fundraiser. They shelled out the big bucks for a customized piece of Undergraduate Council legislation, sponsored by Currier UC Rep Carmelo C. Tringali...
...election cycle when he passed the Medicare drug benefit. After the speech, House Republicans, who have already passed an immigration bill that's all border security and lacking a guest-worker program, felt free to disparage the President. "I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill," said Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican, told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly after the President's speech. Roy Blunt, the House Whip and among the most habitual Bush loyalists, dismissed the plan, saying he had "real concerns" about moving ahead on guest workers without providing enough border security. Conservative...
...border security to appease those conservatives. But he also tried to cast himself as a reasonable centrist, fighting for what he called a "rational middle ground" between massive amnesty and rounding up more than 10 million illegal immigrants and deporting them. Neither idea is really on the table. (Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, jokes that Republicans had enough trouble moving 250,000 New Orleanians who wanted to be evacuated. "And we knew where they were," she gibes.) But Bush's attempt to thread the needle-coming up with a bill that's tough enough to appease his conservative base...
...also cost more than most Representatives' rent. A surprising number of members live together in ratty Capitol Hill townhouses, and the entry of each new class brings a handful of Washington "color" stories about which newly elected officials are rooming together. This year's featured the Salazar brothers (Rep. John and Sen. Ken, both D, Colo.) - who share a two-bedroom, one-bath "luxury apartment" - along with an obligatory sitcom pitch: "The Salazars." Two brothers grow up on a ranch, come to Washington and encounter all kinds of goofiness, like an army of reporters in their kitchen asking hygiene questions...