Word: gephardt
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...election year was always going to be the worst possible time to get Congress to normalize trade relations with China. President Clinton's ability to pass legislation enabling Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organization looked increasingly iffy Wednesday, after it was reported that House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt plans later this week to - not entirely unexpectedly - announce his opposition to the measure. Not only does the opposition of Gephardt and the entire House Democratic leadership bode ill for White House prospects of corralling the necessary Democrats to pass the legislation, but President Clinton's decision Tuesday to defer...
Democratic leadership wanted Portune to run so much that Congressional Minority Leader Richard Gephardt called him personally to persuade him to run, but to no avail...
...Brien is the one causing the feud on Capitol Hill. In November, House Speaker Dennis Hastert received a list of three finalists for the position of chaplain, winnowed from a group of some 50 candidates by a bipartisan committee. Hastert and majority leader Dick Armey outvoted minority leader Richard Gephardt to select the Rev. Charles Wright, a Presbyterian affiliated with the House's influential National Prayer Breakfast. In so doing they passed over the nominating committee's favorite, Father O'Brien, a Catholic priest...
Those tactics helped Bush win South Carolina, but they could alienate the voters he needs in the fall if he secures the nomination. McCain hammered that message home in his unforgiving concession speech, saying Bush's tactics would give the country "Speaker Gephardt and President Gore." McCain was warning that in the eyes of many Americans, Bush has become the candidate of Bob Jones, the Confederacy, the National Rifle Association and the National Right to Life Committee. And though Bush proved in South Carolina that he can change his spots as nimbly as Bill Clinton does, he must now show...
...scrambling to control what bennies are left. Last month he wrote letters begging the heads of the legislative groups, PLEASE STOP. Rendell told TIME he hoped to "get the attention" of congressional Pooh-Bahs to keep them from "overpromising" to donors. But Democratic leaders TOM DASCHLE and DICK GEPHARDT complained to Gore campaign chairman TONY COELHO, who handpicked Rendell for the D.N.C. post. Within the hour, a Rendell aide personally retrieved the letters and issued an apology. Why so contrite? Because for the first time in memory, the congressional committees have raised more cash than the D.N.C...