Word: speaker
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...presidential race just doesn't interest you, remember that in the words of the late House Speaker and Bostonian Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr., "all politics is local." If you don't have the energy or desire to get an absentee ballot for your home state, we have one of the hottest Senate races in the country right here in Massachusetts. Junior Senator John Kerry is having a tough time with challenger and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66. To this point, the campaigns have been marked by heavy advertising on Weld's side with only recent rebuttals from...
...supposed to have been Newt Gingrich's valedictory, the week in which the first Republican House in 40 years could count its accomplishments before returning home to face the voters. As he sat last Thursday afternoon on the sun-washed balcony of his Capitol suite, the Speaker ticked them off: the line-item veto, a sweeping telecommunications law, a crackdown on illegal immigration, an expansion of health insurance, welfare reform, even a savings of $500,000 by ending daily ice deliveries to congressional offices. Then, in Gingrich fashion, he reached back--quite a reach--for a historical analogy. "You could...
...speaker of this magnitude should be publicized more," said Resnick, who did apply for the lottery. "We're falling short of getting information out, not just at the Institute of Politics, but at the Business School as well...
...Speaker in a second Clinton term, Gephardt would have to find common ground with the Democrats in the White House too, and that may be complicated by the Missourian's strained relationship with the President. Gephardt is a straight arrow who looks like he walked out of an episode of Happy Days and is said to disapprove of the President's baby-boomer propensity for self-indulgence. On a political level, Gephardt also resents Clinton for his "triangulation" strategy of distancing himself from congressional Democrats. To this day, Hill Democrats argue that Clinton owes his political resurrection not to adviser...
...Republicans agreed to meet Clinton's demand that they restore the $2.3 billion they had earlier cut from education spending. If what people are asking is not to tear down the House but to make it perform, it may not make a huge difference whether Gingrich or Gephardt is Speaker in January. Either way, the winners of this election may be the voters...