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...for the Hall of Fame. The Rising Star category honors promising young women the committee believes will be future party leaders. The Women of Distinction category honors women who have inspired, mentored, and blazed the trail for those who...
...rest-stop sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy said Wednesday he's still running for re-election, defying party leaders who urged him to drop out as they battle to regain control of the state Legislature. Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, told...
...it takes center stage and steals everyone else's air, and everything else has to take a back seat," she said. Party leaders are sounding a cautious note. Gov. Mark Dayton, a gay marriage supporter, and the top Democrats in the House and...
...following year, McGovern led a Democratic Party reform commission that shifted to voters' power that had been wielded by party leaders and bosses at the national conventions. The result was the system of presidential primary elections and caucuses that...
...difficult in Congress are because the elected representatives work a short work week, get their marching orders from party leaders and never get to know each other. Areas of possible compromise are never discovered, Nolan said, "if you don't...
...former Sen. John Edwards' trial, as well as an exploding sexual harassment scandal involving the state's Democratic Party leader. Jay Parmley recently resigned as executive director of the state party after an employee accused him of showing him...
...this case, everything worked, but it was a gamble. In the "Fast and Furious" gun case in Mexico that has the Tea Party leaders faking outrage, it got tangled and failed. Same exact type program. (And who is dumb enough to think that U.S...
...nearly so forgiving. The party - where lobbyists and other influence seekers paid to gain access to and favor among party leaders - goes a long way toward explaining why Americans' approval of Congress has dropped to 9 percent. The rehabilitation...
...tax increases that had been engineered in negotiations between Congress and the George H.W. Bush administration. Party leaders put him on the negotiating team in an effort to neutralize him. Instead, Newt made it clear that he would not accept...
...spending target of nearly $36 billion.That's a big if for the GOP, and yet in the last round of negotiations, party leaders showed they might finally budge on their proposed spending limit of $34 billion - the amount the state is expected to...