Word: whips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DASCHLE, the new challenge is to show he can lead with a slim margin. Daschle and majority whip HARRY REID must keep their fractious caucus together, especially the powerful new Democratic committee chairmen (below). The leaders may already face trouble as JOE BIDEN considers pushing for his old job running the Judiciary Committee rather than Foreign Relations. That could set off a chain reaction, forcing several other Democratic chairmen to switch jobs...
...aides were dumbfounded. "The horizon was clear; there were no clouds," says one. "No one saw it, and then it poured." As Republicans from Bush to Dick Cheney to party hacks in Vermont tried everything they could think of to lure Jeffords back, Daschle and his top lieutenant, minority whip Harry Reid, sat in their offices hiding broad grins from the rest of the world. They knew something else that Lott was in the dark about. The Jeffords deal had been practically sealed a full week before. In fact, for almost a month, Daschle and Reid had conducted their secret...
...thank-you notes from millionaires and corporate CEOs. But by and large, Bush got the clean bill he wanted. And more important he got it before Democrats took control of the Senate. "I'm really pleased that we've already passed the tax bill," relieved Republican Whip Don Nickles told...
...Douglas Waller:Key Senate Democrats like Harry Reid (the minority whip from Nevada) have been intensively wooing Jeffords to try to get him to defect from the Republican Party. And while the efforts have definitely stepped up over the last couple of weeks, it has just been an intensification of a long history of wooing; because of his propensity to vote with Democrats as often as he votes with Republicans, Jeffords has been a target for defection his entire Senate career...
...control that works with a whole range of appliances--TVs, VCRs, stereos, satellite dishes, what have you--instead of just one. It will also handle devices from any manufacturer. Since my apartment is practically a museum for obscure, obsolete and otherwise obstreperous electronics, I need a remote that can whip a whole houseful of misfit gadgets into shape, kind of like Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen. I set out to find...