Word: speaker
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...real missing step on the road to political mobilization--taken for granted by the punditry in the California case--is the role of Latino political leaders in catalyzing this mobilization. In California, there are Latino Congressmen and Congresswomen; the Speaker of the State Assembly is Mexican-American; there are legion local officials, political organizations and grassroots operatives...
...stand her. "She's impossible to deal with. She's nuts. Totally bonkers," says a senior House Republican. That's probably because she won't join the boys on favored-nation status for China, or she once called Newt Gingrich a fat boy and voted against re-electing him Speaker in 1997, or, most likely, because she rails against special-interest money, which is like being in the Mafia and saying you've got a problem with the loan sharking. Whatever, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has withheld most of the $540,000 they could have given Smith, and news...
...described how House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton, engaged in an ongoing vendetta, have been aching to set traps for each other to stumble into [NATION, Oct. 12]. I believe Clinton has inadvertently set a beauty. The impeachment process will proceed, and the Republicans, blinded by their vitriol against Clinton, will gallop full tilt into an election in which the majority of the electorate are disgusted with their witch hunt. From my perspective, north of the border, I'm betting the Democrats will score a big win in the November midterm elections--a form of self-impeachment...
...that I had no idea where the fax came from. (It was in a sealed envelope.) Was I about to pay for gloriously good news from my agent or for another screed from that persistent gentleman who is always writing to accuse me of showing insufficient respect to the Speaker of the House? But I also found myself irritated that the man who spent $1.6 billion for a hotel was intending to recoup that investment partly by charging me $2 a page for an incoming...
...good speaker, but I resented thefact that she condemned feminists as a group,"said Roona Ray '02. "There's a lot of diversity inthe feminist movement, not only in demographicsbut in political thought...