Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--With his position as the nation's highest elected Democrat in jeopardy, House Speaker Jim Wright mounted an emotional defense yesterday against serious ethics charges and declared he would "fight to the last ounce of conviction and energy that I possess...
...minute counteroffensive delivered to reporters and television cameras, Wright sought to rebut point by point the charges being lodged against him by the House ethics committee, which was writing its final report after a 10-month, $1.5 million investigation of his finances...
Flanked by members of his leadership team and Texas colleagues, Wright's voice choked with emotion as he defended his wife, Betty, against the charge that her $18,000-a-year salary from a Fort Worth business partner amounts to an improper gift...
...Whether I'm speaker of the house, which is the greatest honor I've ever had, is not important," Wright said. "What is important is that Congress move swiftly--and I'm prepared to move very swiftly--to get distractive matters of this kind behind us so that we can concentrate on the really important things that affect this country of ours...
...also threw a well-deserved barb at House Speaker Jim Wright for the manifest ethics problems which soon will engulf him and the rest of the Democratic leadership of the House. Opposition to Wright is advocated by everyone concerned about ethics--everyone, that is, except for anyone who hopes to rise within the Democratic Party...