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...secured the endorsement today of House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt in a sign that top Democrats would like to settle the...backdrop, Gore replied in kind: ''We are going to make Dick Gephardt the next speaker of the House of Representatives...

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The trade issue won't go away

...has yet to signal how tough he will be on Democratic defectors. No one worries more about Sweeney's decision than Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader of the House. Gephardt's main goal in 2000 is capturing the additional five seats that would...

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...anyone's tally, there are a lot of undecided House Democrats on China trade. Their ranks include Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri and Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.

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Prescription drug bill pushed through House

...public relations. It's electioneering. It is not writing a plan that will help people,'' said Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri, who led his rank and file in delaying tactics, including a brief walkout, that added hours to Wednesday's...

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Deal possible in Congress on minimum wage increase

...the first time, to produce a bill that is in the best interest of working Americans," said House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. Hastert, R-Ill., said in a letter to Clinton that Republicans still wanted a $76 billion package of...

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Parties joust over benefits

...president is not giving up," said White House aide Joel Johnson. And Laura Nichols, an aide to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, said the GOP letter "sounds like a desperate attempt on the eve of the election for the Republicans to look like...

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Lawmakers gripe that democracy sacrificed in rush to adjourn

...40-pound behemoth that combined eight spending bills totaling $520 billion. The following year, House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt displayed the omnibus as a 16-inch-high package tied in rope. As new 2001 fiscal year dawned Sunday, only two...

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Congress completing work on Cuban trade bill

...the drug Prozac at 20 milligrams cost $105.64 in the United States but just $43.00 in Canada. Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., called the measure "a sham reimportation measure that isn't worth the government paper it's printed...

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GOP wins on pharmaceuticals reimportation

...said in a statement after the measure went to the Senate for a final vote. The House Democratic leader, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, saw it differently. "Looking for political cover after repeatedly blocking a Medicare prescription...

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GOP narrowly keeps House control with handful of races undecided

...eighth term from Illinois. "A lot of the people who were shrill aren't there any more." The Democratic leader, Dick Gephardt of Missouri, won his 13th term, but fell agonizingly short to his goal of regaining the majority his party lost in...

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