Posts Tagged ‘Jim Wright’
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The Myth of Regular Order
Posted on October 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In the aftermath of the Jim Wright resignation and the House bank scandal in the early 1990s, then-Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) and then-House Minority...
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Jim Wright: Leaving a Mark
Posted on May 7, 2015
Jim Wright left a mark. I came to Washington to work for House Republican Leader Bob Michel in September of 1989, about four months after the Texas Democrat stepped down...
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Our Own History To Live
Posted on March 3, 2015
It was a Speaker who pushed America into the War of 1812. Henry Clay, a hero to Mitch McConnell, ascended briskly to the gavel as a 34 year-old newly elected...
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No Need To Respond
Posted on September 7, 2011
Ev and Gerry started the whole response thing. Everett Dirksen and Gerry Ford, the former Senate Republican leader from Illinois and the former House Minority Leader (and later President) from...
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Boehner Is In Fine Shape
Posted on July 27, 2011
John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times. When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as...
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