In Need of Fresh Start, Can Bush Turn the Page on Bad News?
Another GOP veteran, former White House Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, generally agreed with those sentiments.
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Another GOP veteran, former White House Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, generally agreed with those sentiments.
The Coushattas were one of Abramoff’s top clients, paying him more than $6 million over three years for lobbying work.
Off stage, White House Chief of Staff Andy Card was practically giddy with Dingellmania.
What she found was a veritable treasure trove of historical items: correspondence from Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, pens from bill signings’ past, assorted White House Christmas cards.
Emanuel’s spokesman at the DCCC, Bill Burton, said talk of the Illinois Democrat’s future leadership plans is premature.
The first week of October was notable for more than just the historic opening session of the “Roberts Court” or even the controversial nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers.
It was created and is headed by Bill Clinton’s high-energy former White House chief of staff, John Podesta.
But Harman said the issue really hit home last November when Democrats lost ground in the House and Senate and failed to retake the White House.
But the district, like the state, has trended toward Republicans in recent years.
A few years ago, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was leading his then-teenage son on a personal tour of the Capitol when it struck him: There was a “dearth” of portraits of black people.
Just months after registering its opposition to a key trade bill this summer, the centrist House New Democrat Coalition is reasserting itself with the business community and sending the message that it
He went on to note that in these six-year itch elections (he attributed the term to unidentified “analysts”), “the party in the White House has lost heavily in both houses of Congress.”
Can this coming election be like the disaster Democrats faced in 1994 — not a six-year election for Bill Clinton and his party, to be sure, but an equivalent “two-year itch” that continues to have Democrats
Emanuel, a former administration official for President Bill Clinton, called that a surface assessment of the electorate’s current political mood.
In his eight years in office, John said his top priority was pushing a bill that would have dedicated offshore oil and gas royalty payments to financing coastal restoration projects.
Democratic President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) began his re-election year, 1996, with a 55 percent success rate in Congress, which fell to 53 percent in 1997, then to 38 percent in 1998, before rising back
It is when Republicans took back the House after 40 years of Democratic majorities.
General voter frustration with then-President Bill Clinton, epitomized by his ill-fated health care plan, coupled with concerns about unified Democratic control, a steady drumbeat of ethical charges
John Edwards (D-N.C.), who announced in the fall of 2003 that he would focus fully on the White House and not run for another Senate term.
Openly gay, he wrote a political column for The Blade, a Washington, D.C., gay newspaper, for several years.