Word: congressmen
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...left the kids behind and went to the office of Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from California. Several Alzheimer's people were waiting in front of her office, which was filled with photos of her posing with other Congressmen, which seemed about as impressive as if I had pictures of myself with the people who work on my office hallway. As I started lobbying, she interrupted, "Are you a registered lobbyist?" No, I said, I wasn't. "Then you're an advocate. Don't call yourself a lobbyist. Advocates volunteer. Lobbyists get paid." I still didn't understand the precise difference...
...polls by the website Real Clear Politics, and polls show that most voters have already made up their minds. She has the backing of the popular Gov. Ed Rendell and the mayors of the state's two largest cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not to mention an impressive slew of congressmen, county chairmen and assemblymen, making her unquestionably Pennsylvania's establishment candidate. Clinton has also installed her A-team in the Keystone state. Mary Isenhour, a force in Pennsylvania politics, is her state director. Mark Nevins, John Kerry's state director in 2004, is also onboard, as is Nick Clemens...
...modern world." This Thursday, the President will outline the U.S. position on European-based missiles in an address in Los Angeles and next week will make another speech on the need for the MX missile. In addition to presidential speeches, the Administration has been conducting classified briefings for Congressmen in the White House theater on the Soviet military threat...
...while Clinton still has the support of most of the state's Democratic congressmen, Obama has won over two of the state's savviest members of Congress, U.S. Representatives Chet Edwards of Waco and Lloyd Doggett of Austin. "Doggett is as good a politico as any," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum report, a well-respected Texas political newsletter. "If you see a tidal wave get in front...
...Government Accountability Office, an unnecessary $750 million navigation just a stone's throw from the flimsy Corps floodwalls that drowned New Orleans - but Congress has consistently ignored the proposals. The Corps is the only federal agency funded almost entirely by "earmarks," or individual pet projects requested by individual Congressmen, and Bush's budget office has been complaining about earmarks for seven years. It's no coincidence that the first congressional override of a Bush veto came last November when the President rejected a $23 billion smorgasbord of Corps water projects...