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...ants have grown so nasty that some folks argue for a return to chemical warfare. Says Republican Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority whip and a former exterminator: "The scientific evidence doesn't justify the mirex...
...abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...
...review of the records. "There was never any intent to deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancies if confirmed. Does he have a chance? Even if the committee approves Foster, TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said today that the GOP leadership would not bring the nomination to a floor vote "if there was any hint of filibuster." Senator Phil Gramm has already threatened a filibuster if the nomination is brought to the floor...
From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...
...defeated balanced budget amendment. It was good news to Republicans, for a change, the day after their amendment was defeated in a close vote. They used the announcement by Campbell -- a 61-year-old who sports a ponytail and rides a motorcycle -- to celebrate GOP diversity. Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) pointed out that his great-grandmother was a Chickasaw Indian. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wore a beaded Navajo tie. Democrats suggested Campbell should quit the Senate and submit himself to a special election to find out how voters feel about his switch. TIME congressional correspondent Karen...