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SPOKANE, Wash. - It’s been said that the stars aligned in Spokane for Expo ‘74 to take place, but they also magically came together in Washington D.C. in an era

Clever efforts to target and focus on so-called key states — or key Senate and House seats — are bound to fail.

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Can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society James Madison, Federalist No. 57

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(Archived document, may contain errors) January 18,1993 WHY YOU WERE RIGHT IN CALLING FOR A LINE-ITEM VETO I strongly support the line-item veto, because I think it's one of the most powerfid weapons we could use in ourfight against out-of-control deficit spending. Bill Clinton, quoted in "Just Do 14" The Wall Street Journd EditoriaL February 26,1992.

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Democratic leader of the senate, tom daschle. he had been a senator for 18 years, but he lost his seat to the republican candidate in a surprising election upset in 2004. that was a big shock that year. ten years before that, it was tom foley, democratic congressman from washington state, and speaker of the house. he lost his seat in the general election in 1994. 1994 was a big landslide year for republicans, but winning tom foleys seat that year, ousting the sitting house speaker in his home di...

It happened in 2004 to the democratic leader of the senate, tom daschle. he had been a senator for 18 years, but he lost his seat to the republican candidate in a surprising election upset in 2004. that was a big shock that year. ten years before that, it was tom foley, democratic congressman from washington state, and speaker of the house. he lost his seat in the general election in 1994. 1994 was a big landslide year for republicans, but winning tom foleys seat that year, ousting the sitting h...

Branch to republicans to try to get them to apartment when they werent allowed to offer amendments or anything. at the end of the day, what happens is you have to in some ways compare this to 1994. so i asked somebody that isnt more of a historian than i am and i said, how does this compare to 1994? he said to his recollection, he doesnt remember any democrat calling for speaker foley at the time not to be speaker again. >> greta: shes an easy target. but if you think about it, within the democr...