Word: whips
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Cheney will be soothing the concerns of conservatives, who worry that Bush will give too much away to the Democrats to get legislation passed. House Speaker Denny Hastert--whose son landed a job on Cheney's staff--has taken to calling Cheney an extra whip, the vote-corralling job he held in his days as a Wyoming Congressman. As a Hastert aide says, "It's hard to turn the White House down when Cheney calls...
Critics say the Governor's innate sense of caution is to blame. "This problem could have been solved six months ago and at $10 billion less for the utility companies," says Representative Keith Richman, Republican minority whip in the state assembly. Richman points out that following a spike in power rates in San Diego last August, Republicans wrote a letter to Davis calling for a special session of the legislature "to solve California's energy crisis." The Governor did not respond. "The reason we are at this crisis today is because of the Governor's lack of action and lack...
...Waller: They'll probably vote in committee next week, and the vote will go to the Senate floor the week after that, at the earliest. Then, of course, there's always the possibility that Ted Kennedy will whip out the filibuster he's been threatening, but I'm not at all sure how viable that warning really is at this point...
...spans a half-century, two countries, two languages, two extremes of regimes. Batista's rapacious tyranny keeps most people poor; Castro's stern, homophobic communism keeps them miserable. Bardem, who was excellent as the crippled husband in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, plays a noble fellow suffering at the whip hand of a sadistic dreamboat like Johnny Depp, then wilting tragically from AIDS. It's a serious actor's dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play...
...took the U.S. Supreme Court and its vast store of institutional prestige to end our 36-day national electoral nightmare. When people like Katherine Harris, the Florida legislature and House majority whip Tom DeLay talked about ending the recounts and declaring Bush the winner, they were widely attacked as mere political partisans. But when five Supreme Court Justices did very much the same thing, Al Gore started drafting his concession speech...