Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee made its decision independent of the University's choice to invite president Al Gore '69 as Commencement speaker...
Committee members would not comment on whether Guinier was their first choice for Class Day speaker or on who the other finalists were...
...week, in somewhat roundabout fashion. Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, abruptly canceled a hearing into RTC matters last Thursday at which Leach, the ranking minority member, had planned to unveil some results of inquiries by his staff into Whitewater and Madison. In a letter to House Speaker Thomas Foley, Gonzalez ranted about a Republican "malicious campaign of character assassination" -- and called for full hearings into all aspects of Whitewater to counter that G.O.P. effort. House Democratic leaders had not been at all eager to endorse such hearings, but after Gonzalez's explosion they had little choice...
...that Clinton invested such power in a dummy or straw man. Like the President, Stephanopoulos has a sovereign command of policy issues. Unlike him, thanks to his tenure as floor assistant to House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what it will take to get it done." Despite a well-documented left-of- center tilt (during his House years he could be spied reading Salvadoran dissident novels on the subway), Stephanopoulos is untainted...
...could increase the size and number of services to students, such as airport shuttles, skit trips, shuttles to athletic, CPR classes and Model Mugging classes. The Student Affairs Committee would be able to fund the Interhouse Facebooks, as well as a speaker series and IOP forums on such issues as calendar reform...