Democrats Focus On Ex-Starr Aide
Republicans defend Kavanaugh, now a close Bush aide serving as White House staff secretary, as a sharp legal mind who has been awaiting a hearing since last summer.
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Republicans defend Kavanaugh, now a close Bush aide serving as White House staff secretary, as a sharp legal mind who has been awaiting a hearing since last summer.
Republicans have never lost Ohio and gone on to win the White House, which is one reason both parties see it as so crucial this year In 2000, George W.
DeLay “shares a similar position with [former Nixon White House counsel] John Dean, [Sen.]
Then-President Bill Clinton was “facing a political firestorm over the issue,” wrote two other Times reporters the next day.
But the effort also has the support of several Washington insiders, including former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry and prominent attorney Stan Brand.
Gone are the days when the women arrived at meetings wearing Florence Nightingale-style hats, said Karyn Frist, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) wife.
On April 1, 1998, Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) rammed through the House a highway bill far larger than either the White House or his own leadership wanted.
It was originally the brainchild, in the mid-1980s, of the co-chairmen of the National Governors Association, Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Bill Clinton of Arkansas, who made it a pillar
Max Cleland (D-Ga.) once described his battle with his sleep disorder as “the toughest time for me in 30 years since I was wounded in Vietnam.”
In recent years, under pressure from campaign watchdog groups, presidents-elect have frequently chosen to voluntarily disclose financial supporters of their inaugural festivities — but on occasion
Emanuel has also made a concerted effort to cozy up to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), said several leadership sources.
Clinton, whose husband — former President Bill Clinton — defeated Dole’s husband in the 1996 White House contest, had high praise for the North Carolina Republican.
Given the country’s economic unhappiness, there’s a definite whiff of 1992 around the Bush White House, but aides say they have a definite plan to dispel it.
ticket punched for the White House.
If the Senate signs off on the House bill, all eyes will turn to Gov. Gary Locke (D).
Abramoff, one of President Bush’s most prodigious fundraisers and a top ally of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), resigned Tuesday under pressure from Greenberg Traurig and immediately
The reason, according to several Democrats: The White House cannot be trusted to play fairly with either their own moderates or Democrats of any stripe.
Clinton put in a quick visit to the location in Western Massachusetts.
It also, in its way, represents the fulfillment of an informal quid pro quo the White House has maintained with Congress.
The result was more Republican applicants than in past years, and three Republicans accepted into the program. According to the U.S.