Word: toe
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...stated flatly that he will vote against Gingrich, though he says some two dozen of his colleagues share his thinking. With Republicans holding a scant 227-207 majority in a vote that usually breaks on partisan lines, Gingrich needs every GOP vote he can get. To make sure members toe the line, party leaders are threatening to cut off Republican campaign funds to defectors. What is certain is this: even if he emerges from the vote holding the Speaker's gavel, the man who just two years ago was considered one of the most powerful ever to hold the office...
...elections under toe...
Roemer is a centrist Democrat who does not toe the party line. As an economic conservative, he supports a balanced-budget amendment and is a hawk on legislative pork. But he shows his Democratic roots by backing federal education programs like the Pell Grant and Head Start. Already thrice victorious in the Third, Roemer seems to have found a moderate voice to suit his district...
...Maloney is a tenacious, resilient legislator. Realizing that more than $50 billion was owed to the Federal Government (about $20.5 billion in student loans), she sponsored the Debt Collection Improvement Law of 1996 and joined other Congresswomen to draft a "Women's Contract with America." She has also gone toe to toe with the N.R.A...
...district where ecologists go toe-to-toe with loggers, Riggs champions job security. But the G.O.P. was worried enough about Riggs' own job prospects this fall that it funded a new veterans' hospital in his district...