Word: speaker
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...voting, we're not calling our representatives...there's no mass women's movement," said Suzanne Gordon, a journalist and a speaker at the conference. "When are we going to learn that we've got to stop being so bloody polite...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is about to abandon his cooperative relationship with House Speaker Tom Foley over the issue of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax. Last year both leaders blocked the measure because they feared the tax-revenue loss might aggravate the budget deficit. Now Mitchell has changed his mind because he feels Democrats must do something to attract middle-class voters. With his support, a bill mandating a hefty $60 billion cut in the tax should pass easily this session in both houses...
...House Speaker Tom Foley offering more than just moral support for a Dick Gephardt presidential run? Last week the Missouri Congressman got a surprise boost from Foley, who said he "would have no objection or concern about" the majority leader retaining his House post while making a bid for the presidency. This reduces the political gamble for Gephardt by keeping his seat warm in case he loses the nomination. Moreover, Foley's endorsement gives Gephardt an excuse to back away from the pledge he made in 1989, when running for the leadership post, that he would not seek the White...
Arizona thus became the fifth state in recent months to be tainted by a legislative corruption scandal. In South Carolina, 10 legislators have been indicted in a vote-selling scheme. In California two former state senators were convicted on corruption charges last year. Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House, has been accused of soliciting and not reporting a gift. In New York, Assembly Speaker Mel Miller has pleaded innocent to charges that he was involved in an alleged real estate scam...
...similar vein, Bob Dornan, a G.O.P. colleague from California, took a shot at CBS. He charged that "for Gunga Dan ((Rather)), the more radical the cause, the more airtime it receives." Taking aim at a different target, House minority whip Newt Gingrich last week blasted Speaker Tom Foley for appointing to the Intelligence Committee liberals "who don't believe in intelligence gathering...