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...April 1995, President Clinton ordered an investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) role in Everardo's murder. The inquiry was started after Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), now a U.S. senator, released documents suggesting Everardo had been murdered by a Guatemalan general on the CIA's payroll and that agency officials attempted to cover up the death...
...makes for the kind of situation that requires Washington memoirs of the '90s to have a separate index heading on "Clinton, temper of." Last week he was making late-night phone calls to ask Democrats what gives, sometimes at the top of his voice. To New Jersey's Robert Torricelli, he complained that Democrats who were looking to the independent counsel as a quick way out of a political problem were only creating a more serious...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move that probably means the end of any GOP hopes for a balanced budget amendment this year, Senator Robert Torricelli, the last Senate holdout on the issue, said he will not support the measure. With 11 Democrats already on their side, Republicans had been counting on the New Jersey Democrat to provide the deciding 67th yes vote. Torricelli reportedly told a Democratic colleague he would not back the measure after he failed on a 63-37 vote Wednesday to win changes to the language of the proposed amendment. He wanted to make it easier...
...vote with the GOP on the bill despite some reservations about its language. With Landrieu's qualified support, the Republican leadership is just one vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being torn between loyalty to his party and abandoning the position he staked out in his fierce campaign. TIME Congressional correspondent Tamala Edwards reports from Washington that Senate passage...
...Democrat] John Kerry Mass. $8,333,197 [*] [Democrat] Robert Torricelli N.J. $8,269,457 [*] [Democrat] Mark Warner Va. $8,237,073 [Republican] Guy Milner Ga. $7,638,652 [Republican] Dick Zimmer N.J. $7,595,374 [Democrat] Harvey Gantt N.C. $7,057,717 [Republican] Jesse Helms N.C. $6,725,515 [*] [Republican] William Weld Mass. $6,639,759 [Democrat] Carl Levin Mich. $5,730,793 [*] [Democrat] Paul Wellstone Minn...