Word: republican
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...staff member. "In fact, he says Hollings is an honorable debater." McCain always shows deference to the longer-serving Hollings by going to his office for meetings. On occasions when McCain leaves committee hearings, he breaks Senate protocol and hands his gavel to his Democratic counterpart rather than the Republican next in line...
...White House has ascribed the U.S.'s failure to pay its U.N. debts mainly to isolationist Republican kookery. In fact, Congress has passed two bills authorizing payment of the arrears. But President Clinton vetoed both because of New Jersey Republican Representative Chris Smith's insistence that U.N. dues be tied to legislation that would withhold money to any organizations that lobby foreign governments on abortion. Though they have watered down their antiabortion language, House G.O.P. leaders Tom DeLay and Dick Armey have also promised Smith that payment of the arrears will remain linked to his proviso. That's unacceptable...
This year's Democratic race was a two-man show from the start, but on the Republican side, it took more time, five dropouts, some stumbles and some surprises to arrive where we are now, at least in New Hampshire: with 12 weeks left to go until primary day, George W. Bush and John McCain are suddenly just single digits apart. And as it happened, at just the moment that the contest came into focus, the issues of intellect and temperament that have hummed all year suddenly threw off sparks and lit up the whole horizon of the Republican race...
...always had this acute sense of right and wrong," he told TIME. And people like a fighter. "Show me a politician who's never offended anyone," said his spokesman Dan Schnur, "and I'll show you a politician who has never got anything done." At a time when the Republican leaders in Congress are not winning popularity contests, McCain's allies note, having them as enemies may win you friends...
...because implementing the deal depends on the House of Representatives' dropping legislation requiring annual approval of China's Most Favored Nation trade status. But with the U.S. business community solidly behind the deal, the White House may be counting on pressure from the GOP's donors to spur the Republican leadership to rein in legislators opposed to the deal. That won't be easy in a year in which the concerns of the folks back in the district are paramount in the minds of congressmen...