Word: chairmanship
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...district where tilling the soil is not a hobby but an industry of thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last year--sometimes aggravates his G.O.P. colleagues, but Ewing knows they don't vote to send him to Capitol Hill...
Thomas may coast to a 10th term after winning two-thirds of the vote in the past two elections. He has used his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee to push campaign-finance reforms that would cut the maximum donation for pacs. Thomas was also a key opponent of the Clinton health-care plan in the last Congress. He calls his philosophy "pragmatic conservatism," and it seems to be popular in the 21st...
...spirited, combative lawmaker who came to Washington in the post-Watergate congressional housecleaning, Miller has made a career championing the causes of children and the environment. Though Republican power has diminished his clout--he lost the chairmanship of the powerful Natural Resources Committee--his enthusiasm for Democratic causes has not waned...
...Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs ICN, but his tenure has been troubled. Since 1993, he has twice been sued for sexual harassment and has successfully fought a challenge to his chairmanship. Last week ICN announced that a grand jury is probing Panic's sale of $1.2 million worth of ICN stock in 1994 after receiving unfavorable news that was not disclosed to other shareholders. Panic says he is "absolutely confident" he will be cleared...
With that in mind, he set out to capture the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. One by one, he won over many of the white Southern chairmen who distrusted him because of his association with Jackson. At the D.N.C., he kept the factions together, at least partly, by being evenhanded. In 1989 he supported Richard Daley Jr. in the Chicago mayoral race, standing against his former patron, Jackson, who was backing another candidate. But several years later, when two officials of the centrist Democratic Leadership Conference tried to prevent Jackson from speaking at a meeting, Brown delivered a searing...