Word: thompson
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Four Republicans-Fred D. Thompson of Tennesee, McCain, Susan Collins of Maine and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter-have indicated their support for the bill in its current form...
...debated the reform bill. That posed a problem for Senate majority leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, who doesn't think a system in which Republicans raised $549 million in campaign '96--at least 50% more than the Democrats--needs all that much reforming. He also knows that Fred Thompson's Senate hearings, while intended to fry the other guys, have put both parties in a bad light. So his response to Clinton was hurriedly to schedule the start of debate for last Friday. That adroitly placed him on the side of the angels while tripping up the reformers, who were...
That's no idle threat. A Republican filibuster knocked off an earlier version of the bill last year. In addition to McCain, only three Senate Republicans--Thompson, Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania--have joined the 45 Democrats who signed on to this year's model, leaving the bill well short of the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster McConnell has sworn to bring against it. But with so much more attention on finance corruption, talking the bill to death would risk a public backlash against Republicans. So before it comes to that, Lott...
...child she was tutoring is at high risk of just dropping out of school, and tal, really, in keeping the child going," Thompson said...
While the Pentagon announced Friday it had moved forward by a week the deployment of the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Persian Gulf, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson believes the move is primarily a publicity exercise. The move came after the Monday attack by Iranian warplanes on exiled rebel bases inside Iraq, which violated the U. no-fly zone. But, says Thompson, ?these cross border spats have been going on since the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988.? Although rushing the Nimitz to the region makes clear that the no-fly zone will be enforced, ?it?s mostly...