Word: saxton
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...time. "I got a dictionary to look up what it was." Aranda, who once watched a gunned-down friend die in his arms, says the punks tease him about this sissy cricket thing. "But this will take me places they'll never go." Former gang member Robert Saxton, 16, thinks of it as switching crews. "This is my gang now," says Saxton, shagging balls at practice...
Take this scene at a hearing: Reich recounts that Republican Representative Jim Saxton yells, "'Where did you learn economics, Mr. Secretary?'" and, jumping up and down, "'Evidence! Evidence!'" Reich says he was attacked by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch speech: "There isn't a lady in the room. All men...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast...
...JAMES SAXTON (R) District...
Although essentially a mainstream Republican, Saxton has split with many in his party by voting often in favor of gun control and environmental protection. He once tried to stop G.O.P. efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act and called on President Clinton to stop the dumping of dredged silt off the New Jersey coast. This formula has increased his margin of victory in each of the past three elections, making the well-financed Saxton a formidable incumbent...
...version of the act, which must still pass both full houses of Congress, by making sure that hearings showcased the hardships of property owners and "ordinary people.'' Another successful tactic was to make an end run around the subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, which is headed by Jim Saxton of New Jersey, a moderate Republican who favors the law. Instead Young formed an endangered-species task force and turned it over to Representative Richard Pombo, a fourth-generation rancher from California's Central Valley who is at war with the Federal Government over land-use regulations. At Young...