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By Karen Hosler and Karen Hosler,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | June 9, 1999
WASHINGTON -- Desperately trying to restore order to the House, Republican leaders moved yesterday to slow the momentum of a Democratic gun-control drive and to paper over a spending dispute that has prompted rebellion in their own ranks.Speaker Dennis Hastert and his lieutenants announced the moves after a meeting in which Hastert warned his fractious Republican troops, who hold a narrow majority in the House, that they have no choice but to stand together. At stake, Hastert said, are not only their legislative goals but also their control of Congress if voters come to believe that the Republicans are unable to govern.
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By Carl M. Cannon and Carl M. Cannon,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | September 22, 1997
WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders, unmollified by a new Justice Department inquiry into whether a special prosecutor should probe President Clinton's fund-raising role, sharply turned up the pressure yesterday on Attorney General Janet Reno."
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | October 1, 1997
WASHINGTON -- The Republican leaders of both the House and the Senate said yesterday that legislation giving the president renewed authority to negotiate global trade accords has failed to gain enough support in Congress and blamed President Clinton for not doing enough to win over Democrats to the cause.The Senate majority leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, said there was little momentum behind the legislation and "some concern whether it will come to fruition before the end of the year" because the White House was too disengaged.
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By Thomas W. Waldron and Thomas W. Waldron,SUN STAFF | November 28, 1999
Maryland doesn't have an official motto, but it may be on the verge of winning an unofficial one -- America's Most Liberal State.That is, of course, a mythical distinction as there is no precise way of measuring such a competition among the 50 states.But there is little doubt that Maryland can be lumped with such liberal bastions as Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Minnesota -- and may well have taken a spot to their left on the overall political spectrum.While all of those states have elected moderate or conservative Republicans to statewide office this decade, Maryland has elected nothing but left-leaning Democrats in statewide balloting.
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By Jonathan Weisman and Jonathan Weisman,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | July 21, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Chinese dissidents, human rights activists and Christian conservatives will travel to Capitol Hill today to denounce U.S. policies in China, just as they did last month before President Clinton's trip to that country.But this time, the opponents will be lambasting the same Republican leaders they stood shoulder to shoulder with in June, the same leaders who for months have assailed Clinton's China policies but who tomorrow will push to uphold China's most favored nation trade status.
NEWS
August 18, 1992
Henry Clay once said he'd rather be right than be president. He got his wish. Sometimes it seems that Alan Keyes, too, would rather be correct in his own eyes than get elected to the U.S. Senate. However admirable this might be in terms of intellectual honesty, it's dumb politics. And politics is the game Mr. Keyes, the Republican nominee for the Senate, is engaged in right now.Perhaps the most basic truth in campaigning for office is that you get elected by making friends, not by alienating people.