Gotcha games Senator says: 'You all look alike' State Sen. Shawn Mitchell said something funny while the Colorado Senate worked on the Trial Lawyers' Bill of 2008. During debate, Senate President Peter Groff and Majority Leader Ken Gordon -- two liberal Democrats -- stood...
VOTING BILL HICCUP After initially jumping on board with a bill that would streamline Secretary of State Mike Coffman's ability to reapprove decertified voting machines, two citizen watchdog groups questioned the measure Friday. House Bill 1155 would allow Coffman to retest and give his...
This study of the debates in Canada about a national education bureau offers an opportunity to explore how various participants grounded their position in constitutional, regional, and cultural identities to construct a definition of citizenship, and to align new or existing educational institutions in such a way as to configure...
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's casual review of Barry Bonds has turned into a full-scale investigation. Selig will announce today the hiring of George Mitchell, former U.S. Senate majority leader, to lead an independent investigation into past steroid use by Bonds and other major league players, according to...
George John Mitchell A popular Maine Democrat, George John Mitchell (born 1933) was the majority leader in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1994. George John Mitchell was born in Waterville, Maine, on August 20, 1933. He was the fourth of five children one daughter and four sons of Mary...
By Patrick Sweeney, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 26--Since 1998, patients of the Maplewood Cancer Center have been able to see their oncologists and get chemotherapy or receive radiation treatment in one stop rather than trekking between...
Southern Plains Medical Center in Chickasha and St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, have signed an affiliation agreement. The agreement will allow St. Anthony and Southern Plains to share resources to better meet the health care needs of people in Chickasha, Grady County and surrounding areas. Specific improvements will...
When former US Senator George Mitchell was first mentioned as a possible chairman for the Northern Ireland peace talks, David Trimble's party denounced the idea as "the equivalent of an American Serb presiding over talks on the future of Croatia". Ian Paisley's party, to no one's surprise, brought...
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 December 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Press briefing by Joe Lockhart C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:211298 11:15 a.m. The Briefing Room MR. LOCKHART: Good morning. As you know, because of the President's...
Former US Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, chairman of the Irish peace talks that led to the landmark Good Friday peace accord, credits the ardent desire of the people of Northern Ireland to stop violence for the happy conclusion of the negotiations. He also cites the political will and courage...
MIAMI--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 27, 1997--Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, has been named Special Counsel to Pan American World Airways, Pan Am's President and Chief Executive Officer Martin R. Shugrue Jr. announced Monday. Mitchell is of counsel to Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Pan Am's international...
Health-care legislation seems unlikely to pass before the 1994 Congressional elections. Bills by Sen George Mitchell and Rep Richard Gephardt try to come close to universal coverage, but the Republicans claim they will ruin a good existing system with crippling expenses.IT WAS on an unusually cool August afternoon that the...
Bunty Anquoe Indian Country Today Lakota Times 04-13-1994 Mitchell is replacement front-runner. By Bunty Anquoe Today Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Senate majority leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, has emerged as the front-runner to replace retiring Justice Harry Blackmun, the...
The National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP did much to further the civil rights movement, though Martin Luther King's prominence to some extent denied the NAACP the recognition it had earned. Formed in 1909 to advocate making African Americans the social and political equals of whites, the...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Me.), who agreed last week to give a keynote address to NLC's Congressional City Conference on Sunday, March 8, convened the first meeting of the Senate Task Force and Advisory Committee on Community and Economic Revitalization last week by urging adoption...
Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-me.) last week accepted a joint invitation from NLC President Glenda Hood and Maine Municipal Association President Jill Goldthwait to serve as the keynote speaker at NLC's Congressional City Conference. The invitation came after a meeting of NLC...
President will keynote March 9; Senate to stay in session President George Bush will outline his domestic agenda for 1992 on Monday, March 9 in a keynote address before local officials attending NLC's Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C. Last week the...
"The Democrats should just get it over with and change their name to the Republican Party." So griped one reader recently. I don't remember what outrage prompted him to call, but the comment could relate to most of what the Democrats have touched lately. Take the ...
Mitchell has performed the same dance with campaign finance reform. Three years ago the Senate nearly passed a major bill, sponsored by Democrat David Boren, that included tight spending ceilings and public financing of Senate races. A Republican filibuster killed it. That was before the Charles...
DEMOCRATS in the Senate, hungry for a clear message, have picked a good messenger. The new Senate majority leader, Maine's Senator George Mitchell, is endowed with intelligence, humour and other sound virtues; but the quality that ensured his election by his Democratic colleagues is his talent...
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