Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from those early days at Pascagoula Junior High, the well-starched and whip-smart boy started reaching out, discreetly helping others with homework. He paid special attention to the kids who, like himself, weren't athletic or attractive. "And you know what?" he says. "Turns out we were the majority...
Ever since, even after he got his teeth fixed, Lott has advanced himself by assembling such snaggletoothed majorities. As the House Republican whip, or chief vote counter, during the early 1980s, Lott helped forge alliances with both the Boll Weevil Democrats, who were ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass...
...Arnie Arnesen, a former member of the New Hampshire House of representatives and candidate for U.S. Congress; Richard L. Berke, national political correspondent at The New York Times; Gaston Casperton, former governor of West Virginia; Jill Hanson, national political director of Dole-Kemp '96; Robert C. Hayes, former majority whip of the North Carolina House of Representatives; and Lisa McCormack, publications and online communications director for the Republican National Committee...
...struck back by pointing out that it was illegal to release the tape. "U.S.C. 119, Section 2511, prohibits the interception and disclosure of wire, oral or electronic communications. In other words, an unauthorized third party recording of a telephonic conversation is a violation of federal law," Republican Whip Tom DeLay wrote in a memo to Reno. "I urge you to pursue this matter with vigilance and due haste." The Justice Department has said it would look into the matter. Department lawyers noted that, in general, federal law requires proof of intent to intercept and disseminate overheard conversations, but said that...
...House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-Mich.), after Newt Gingrich's re-election yesterday as Speaker of the House...