Word: cabineteer
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...Dores San Diego AOL: SDiegoPaul Perhaps we are witnessing the birth of parliamentary government in the U.S. Through the concentration of enormous power in the office of Speaker, Gingrich is like a Prime Minister--locally elected, raised to power by the majority party, able to form a sort of cabinet of committee chairmen. The notion derives further support from the increasingly irrelevant house of bombastic lords in the Senate and the largely ceremonial figurehead in the White House...
Trouble is that Balladur, quite unexpectedly, became the darling of the opinion polls and the front runner for the presidency. One by one, conservative leaders, including 25 of 29 current Cabinet members, deserted Chirac for Balladur. The defections need not be fatal for Chirac: he still claims the support of 240 of the R.P.R.'s 350 Senators and Deputies and appears to have the majority of the Gaullist rank and file on his side. But with Balladur enjoying far broader support from the center, the Prime Minister's 2-to-1 lead in the polls is formidable...
...former Education secretaries, Republicans William Bennett and Lamar Alexander, say the Cabinet department should be abolished and its work left to the states and communities. "Most federal programs can be done elsewhere," said Bennett, who headed Education under President Reagan. Alexander, who held the post in the Bush Administration and plans to run for president in 1996, suggested a deregulated, locally-run education system composed of charter schools. The two addressed a conference sponsored in part by Empower America, the conservative politcal group that Bennett co-chairs...
...Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble in Ashiya, a posh residential district between Kobe and Osaka. Japan's Cabinet was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the disaster tonight...
...both cheaper than Gingrich's and more closely targeted to the middle class. One of Gingrich's recent planning sessions came on a morning when the Washington Post had announced what would have seemed preposterous before the election: the Clinton White House was actually thinking about killing an entire Cabinet agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Incoming Budget Committee chairman John Kasich, 42, a tousle-haired Dennis- the-Menace look-alike who has been known to brandish a bullwhip on the House floor, exulted, "This is our stuff...