Word: gephardt
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...Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment and recrimination blazed by David Duke, then trod successfully by Jesse Helms and now given a tarnished patina of intellectual respectability by William Bennett...
...DICK GEPHARDT (5-4). House majority leader dusted off sheaf of populist poses from '88; qualifies as first major Democrat to urge gulf caution. He's looking for a well-funded starting position...
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt is a defender of Joe Six-Pack, who would have been stung by a Republican proposal to raise the excise tax on beer to 32 cents a pack. But Gephardt has another reason to be one of the boys: Anheuser- Busch Co. headquarters are in his St. Louis district. Gephardt bellied up to the task of holding the beer tax to 16 cents per six-pack. He has received $12,850 from beer industry PACs...
...higher taxes for the rich when they saw a gloomy Bush on television Tuesday night, suffering through a New England campaign swing during which G.O.P. candidates distanced themselves from his positions. The next day, top congressional Democrats arrived for their daily 8 a.m. meeting in majority leader Richard Gephardt's office. All agreed that pushing for another victory over the President would be counterproductive. "We didn't win everything, but we got most of what we wanted," says Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, who had been among the group that most strongly urged for a steeply progressive tax plan...
With that decided, Gephardt placed a phone call to Budget Director Richard Darman, who was still the White House point man in the negotiations, though he and chief of staff John Sununu had both been cast in messenger roles because their aggressive arm bending in support of the budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike...