Word: gephardt
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...incumbents. Nor did the money stop flowing when the election was over: $2.4 million went to incumbents after last Nov. 9. Senate Finance chairman Lloyd Bentsen collected the most PAC money -- $2.4 million -- demonstrating that he didn't really need to organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with $575,086, and minority leader Robert Michel with $555,340. Banking Committee member David Dreier, New York's Stephen Solarz and the ever prosperous...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
...They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and medical equipment to fish products and aluminum. "The Administration's feeble use of the Super 301 provision comes in the face of our continuing trade deficit," said Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, whose tough trade proposals gave rise to the Super 301 legislation. "((Bush)) has signaled to the world that he will take ((Japan's)) trade abuse lying down...
...Party across the nation. One unconfirmed story had it that O'Neill, who disappeared as mysteriously as he came, had fingered the entire top Democratic leadership of the House as damaged goods who should be replaced by fresh men such as Indiana's Lee Hamilton and Missouri's Dick Gephardt...
...Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) was said by friends to be running hard to replace Foley as majority leader, the No. 2 position. It was unclear whether the third-ranking Democrat in the House, majority whip Tony Coelho of California, would seek to move up or would be prevented from doing so by separate ethics questions that have arisen over his business dealings...