Word: whips
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...Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. But it turns out the man most responsible for taking Miers down was an insider, the G.O.P.'s fourth-ranked Senator, Jon Kyl (rhymes with smile). The second-term conservative from Arizona argued at length in meetings with majority leader Bill Frist and G.O.P. whip Mitch McConnell that the Miers nomination was too risky ideologically and too costly politically, sources on Capitol Hill tell TIME. From Day One, says a G.O.P. staff member, "[Kyl] was trying to kill Miers...
With early but clear signs of a meltdown flashing around them, Gingrich and the rest of the House leadership, including majority leader Dick Armey and House whip Tom DeLay, went into the final phase of a furious attempt at damage control. Within a day of Forbes' announcement, Paxon and Armey had organized a giant conference call connecting more than 100 House Republicans. From his home in Marietta, Georgia, Gingrich connected by phone on Tuesday morning with Armey in Washington. "I need an honest appraisal," Gingrich told him. "How does it look...
...Clinton have several times discussed their common desire not to allow the investigations of either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington...
...Whip safety Danny Tanner is questionable for tomorrow’s game with a meniscus injury in his knee. Tanner missed last week’s game against Cornell and was replaced by senior Robert Balkema in the starting lineup...The news isn’t getting any better for Harvard’s depleted receiving corps. Senior Ryan Tyler may be done for the year with a shoulder injury, senior Rodney Byrnes has only practiced once since he injured his hamstring on the Crimson’s opening offensive series of the season, and junior Corey Mazza would like...
Almost immediately, it did. A plan engineered by DeLay and Hastert to install complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...