Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MANCHESTER, N.H.-In a city where downtown shops are bustling and billboards are encouraging investments, Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes' economic plans sounded a bit stale...
Last November during Election day, you could almost hear the collective groan emanating from Washington. In one of the most quiet--yet closely watched--races from around the country, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), who gave a speech at the ARCO Forum last night, defeated Republican Mark Neumann by a hair, 51 to 49 percent...
...ultimate country-club, the Senate is dominated by those politicians who know who how to manipulate the system best. Many of them, rich from large campaign war-chests and PAC money, staunchly refuse to change it. Among these is hawkish Sen. Mitch McConnel (R-KY), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. As the dispenser of funds for Republican candidates across the country, the anti-reform McConnell took money away from Republicans who supported McCain-Feingold, like Washingtonian Linda Smith (who lost her Senate race), and gave them to candidates who could take down his political enemies. Private Enemy...
...would think that elected members of Congress, whose duty is to represent the American people, would get the point. Allegations of foreign tampering in U.S. elections and unbelievable fund-raising techniques by the Clinton administration should have been enough to outrage Republican diehards. The efforts of tobacco lobbyists to evade responsibility for lung cancer deaths by paying off representatives should have Democrats screaming bloody murder. Instead, there is only silence...
Former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan K. Simpson delivered the opening remarks and moderated a question-and-answer session that followed the speech...