Word: congressman
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...Insurance Program in 2007. He has also championed government whistle-blowers and launched probes into the tax status of (GOP friendly) Evangelical preachers. That independence helps explain why he is easily Iowa's most popular politician, winning re-election four times. "Everybody trusts Chuck in Iowa," says former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach...
...trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining-room table. I have no interest in doing it.' BARNEY FRANK, Democratic Congressman, responding to a Massachusetts woman who asked at a town-hall meeting on health-care reform why Frank supports what she dubbed a "Nazi policy...
...them. When women lose jobs, the victims are women. When men lose jobs, the victims are, um, women, because they have to make up for that lost male income. The scale of male job losses was evident even when the stimulus bill was passed. That did not stop incoming Congressman Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, from warning Obama that "gender imbalance in occupations related to physical infrastructure development means that the direct job creation will benefit mostly...
...Wild West out there.' ROBERT GOTTHEIM, district manager for Manhattan Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on the treacherous airspace above the Hudson River, where a helicopter collided with a small plane on Aug. 8, killing all nine people on both aircraft...
...Henry Louis Gates Jr. The island's minority population isn't huge (of its 65,000 summer residents, only about 3,000 are black), but it is extraordinarily well integrated. The Vineyard has long been the summer home of black luminaries including Gates, Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (who honeymooned here in 1934). "That is why I like it here," Gates told TIME after returning from his White House beer summit with Obama and Sergeant James Crowley, the Cambridge, Mass., police officer whose altercation with Gates sparked a summer's worth of agitated headlines...