Word: repping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonder Americans are looking for someone to blame. But the recent phenomenon of Americans suing fast food makers for their glut of guts has largely been met with bitter scowls. According to a 2003 Gallup poll, 89 percent of the country opposes them, believing that—as Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., put it—fat people should “look in the mirror” for the source of their problems. However, the U.S. Congress is wrong in its attempts to ensure that the other 11 percent never has its day in court...
...Scully ordered Foster to keep quiet—and, according to Foster as well as others, threatened to fire him if he didn’t. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., told The New York Times that “Tom Scully told my staff that Rick Foster would be ‘fired so fast his head would spin’ if he released [the drug bill’s costs...
Bush’s bill passed the House by a single vote. And getting even a “$400 billion” entitlement through the Republican Congress was a challenge. Already we know that (according to Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak) retiring Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., received threats because he opposes deficit spending. With the Bush-controlled House leadership’s endorsement, Novak reported, Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., and others told the disloyalist that his son—running in Michigan to succeed Smith—would lose funding from GOP loyalists...
Then I saw Ann R. Riley ’07, the FYSC rep in charge of the event. She was really excited to see me because I was the only person there. I think she was lonely...
...Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla.—the former Florida secretary of state who stepped onto the national stage after overseeing the state’s 2000 recount—guardedly praised the new effort in a statement e-mailed to The Crimson yesterday...