As Congress prepares to come back from its August recess and tackle health care reform, the question arises whether lawmakers will do something in honor of the "Lion of the Senate" -- or should Congress simply start over?
Despite the discouraging polls, the GOP candidate isn't acting like he's the loser
The Republican's slim hopes of winning rest on holding a slew of red states and stealing a big blue one like Pennsylvania, but most of all they depend on the candidate's faith in himself
I have been involved in most of the presidential and vice presidential debates over the past 20 years.
The Republican National Convention is kicking off in full force Tuesday in the Twin Cities -- the first time the GOP has held a presidential convention there since 1892.
Does a candidate's selection of a running mate improve his standing in the polls? In other words, is there a "veep bounce"?
Why waiting to announce a running mate until the conventions might be a boon for Obama -- and a liability for McCain
Sen. John McCain's campaign has a plan to keep him in the public eye while providing what aides hope is a contrast with the Democrats who are still fighting for their party's nomination.
After clinching the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain on Thursday is working to shore up support in battleground states and strengthen his organization going into the general election.
GOP front-runner John McCain is cruising into Super Tuesday with a hefty lead in the polls, but he's drawing a backlash from some top conservatives who say he is too liberal to carry the Republican nomination.
As Congress prepares to come back from its August recess and tackle health care reform, the question arises whether lawmakers will do something in honor of the "Lion of the Senate" -- or should Congress simply start over?
Despite the discouraging polls, the GOP candidate isn't acting like he's the loser
The Republican's slim hopes of winning rest on holding a slew of red states and stealing a big blue one like Pennsylvania, but most of all they depend on the candidate's faith in himself
I have been involved in most of the presidential and vice presidential debates over the past 20 years.
The Republican National Convention is kicking off in full force Tuesday in the Twin Cities -- the first time the GOP has held a presidential convention there since 1892.
Does a candidate's selection of a running mate improve his standing in the polls? In other words, is there a "veep bounce"?
Why waiting to announce a running mate until the conventions might be a boon for Obama -- and a liability for McCain
Sen. John McCain's campaign has a plan to keep him in the public eye while providing what aides hope is a contrast with the Democrats who are still fighting for their party's nomination.
After clinching the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain on Thursday is working to shore up support in battleground states and strengthen his organization going into the general election.
GOP front-runner John McCain is cruising into Super Tuesday with a hefty lead in the polls, but he's drawing a backlash from some top conservatives who say he is too liberal to carry the Republican nomination.
It's one year until Election Day 2008. Do the current polls tell us anything a year before the election? Yes, they tell us something, but you have to be careful.
For a troubled candidate like John McCain, when the going gets tough, it's time to talk tough
The Army has created a new post to help address problems at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army's vice chief of staff announced Thursday.
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and ex-Cabinet member Donna Shalala vowed Wednesday to carry out a "vigorous" review of health care for recovering war veterans, focusing primarily on Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
President Bush on Tuesday named Democrat Donna Shalala and Republican Bob Dole to head a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The White House said Wednesday that critics of a deal that would let a United Arab Emirates company manage six U.S. seaports are "misinformed," but conceded it should have consulted Congress earlier.
Jude Wanniski might have been called the most important journalist of his time, except that the former reporter and editorial writer was never really a journalist.
Delegates to the Republican National Convention found a new way to take a jab at Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam service record: by sporting adhesive bandages with small purple hearts on them.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Bob Dole needs a new job. After being fired by Viagra for being too old, the first ambassador of erectile dysfunction may now be in luck: A barrage of new impotence treatments are expected to hit p...
Back in 1996, Bob Dole thought he had a chance to be President of the U.S.; TIME magazine asked, can 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG?; and the Baby Bell telephone companies thought they woul...
Washington pundits act as if they know who will end up in the White House. But picking the winner isn't as easy as they make it out to be; it's a complicated and capricious process. Some advice to ...
Republicans may have finally figured out the formula for a successful convention. At a time when the public doesn't care about--or actively disdains--elected officials, a presidential campaign has ...
The voters didn't produce much of a House cleaning this fall, and the Senate won't look that much different in January, either. Even so, there will be a new set of leaders in the House, some new fa...
Amid the armies of experts on law, economics, and technology who have been drawn into the battle over Microsoft's future, Bob Dole is a bit like Waldo in the Sunday comics: out of place and easy to...
Washington has a new favorite sport--Microsoft bashing--and the Justice Department isn't the only group in town that's playing. A new and secretive coalition of companies and lobbyists, called (for...
Although former Senator Bob Dole (R-Kans.) probably won't see a dime of interest on the $300,000 he loaned House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in April for eight years, he will owe taxes each year ...
Too bad the presidential election didn't feature a serious debate about how to improve economic growth in America. No single question vexes economists more, and none is as potentially important for...
Whichever way the House of Representatives goes on Election Day, there's probably no happy ending for any taxpayer the politicians deem to be wealthy. And let's face it, if you're doing okay these ...
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In this election year, President Clinton and Republican contender Bob Dole have vowed to provide tax breaks and other incentives to help more renters--now about a third of American households--beco...
Bob Dole wants to overhaul welfare. So does Bill Clinton. Clinton wants a Constitutional amendment enshrining victims' rights. So does Dole. Dole wants to cut capital gains taxes. So does Clinton. ...
If the 1996 Presidential race has you scratching your head, don't worry: That's a perfectly reasonable reaction. After all, on the Republican side, former Senator Bob Dole, who spent the past decad...
Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are happy to tell you how they'd cut your taxes next year. But what about tax year 1996? Don't look to Washington for a lot of help here: Congress and the President haven'...
As soon as Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole embraced tax cuts as a central theme of his floundering campaign, many economic commentators started bad-mouthing the plan as voodoo economics. A...
President Clinton and challenger Bob Dole agree on one thing this year: Whoever convinces you that he can put more cash in your pocket over time has the best chance of collecting your vote. So brac...
Here's a proposition: Tell me one fact about an economist, and I bet I can predict with almost perfect precision whether he or she thinks Bob Dole's budget plan is a good or bad idea. The fact I wa...
One thing Bill Clinton and Bob Dole agree on is that California voters should vote no on Proposition 211 this November. If it gets approved, Prop. 211 would essentially make it easier to file so-ca...
The mood of corporate America improved vastly this summer. After falling for two months, the FORTUNE Business Confidence Index soared to a record 166 in August. Eight out of ten chief financial off...
Could it be that the American electorate just loves to roll over for a big guy who's smooth on TV and can talk like a Republican? President Clinton, who's taken to sounding quite Reaganesque at tim...
Whatever becomes of Bob Dole's plan for a quick cut in tax rates, his longer-term agenda--moving toward a "fairer, flatter" tax system--will continue to resonate with many Americans and to cause co...
You remember supply-side economics. It brought on those terrible 1980s budget deficits, the ones we'll be paying for well into the next millennium. Or maybe it was the engine behind the longest pea...
Summer is changing to autumn, and you're in for some stormy weather as Election Day approaches--political weather, that is. Between now and Nov. 5, you can expect to endure blizzards of sound bites...
THE POWER OF THE RETIREMENT VOTE
Are you better off than you were four years ago? Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan asked that question in 1980, and voters showed Jimmy Carter the White House door by answering with a resounding...
President Clinton's reelection campaign seems to have it all: expert advance work, nimble use of focus groups, sophisticated polling in real time. Along one small battlefront of the larger electora...
When former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, 72, left his Capitol chambers to run for President full time, he took with him retirement benefits valued for life at $3 million. When you add those of ...
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Here's a vernal ritual you know well: The major parties finish tidying up their presidential nominations and start preparing for the general election. Down in a Texas office building, stirrings of ...
Having finally clinched the Republican presidential nomination after 16 years and three tries, Bob Dole can afford to catch some spring sunshine outside his Capitol office on the marble porch he ca...
So I've pulled off one of the toughest tricks in American political history: I've become a late bloomer at age 72. That was no picnic. But it's nothing compared with what I have ahead of me. I'm go...
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There were times when his campaign seemed hapless, even hopeless. At one rally his wife walked into a room and found only one person in the audience. Once he drove hours in an impossibly frigid New...
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
After G.O.P. presidential aspirant Steve Forbes checked out the tax returns for 1966 through 1994 released by rival Robert Dole and his wife Elizabeth in January, he quipped that all the Doles' ret...
Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole promised to get the telecommunications deregulation bill, which would let cable TV operators and local and long-distance telephone companies duke it out in the marketplac...
Here's a crazy election-year scenario: An incumbent Republican President with approval ratings in the stratosphere is suddenly toast. An unknown governor of a small Southern state wins the Democrat...
"I never thought I would urge Bill Clinton to do any thing but retire," wrote Miles W. Haupt of Poulsbo, Wash. "But please add my name to your list of people requesting a presidential veto of the s...
WHEN NEWT Gingrich and his Republican revolutionaries seized control of Congress last fall, delight in many corner offices that Washington might finally move to cut federal spending and roll back n...
Bob Dole is working hard to make the case that age doesn't count when it comes to the presidency. For the more than 1,800 life insurance companies, however, age does count. Would an insurer take th...
Archer Daniels Midland has had several brushes with the law over the years, but none abrasive enough to halt its steady climb into the top ranks of American industry. Now, however, the agribusiness...
Word to Senator Bob Dole: get with it, bro. The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...
Hey, Republicans! Still smarting from Dick Cheney's withdrawal from the 1996 presidential race? Get over it. A bevy of top business brass has already cast ballots elsewhere.
TALK ABOUT BEDLAM INSIDE THE BELTWAY: After Senate majority leader Bob Dole (R-Kans.) spent three days struggling in vain to ram through the balanced-budget amendment, he ended up voting against it...
For all the talk of tax cuts, what business really wants from a Republican Congress is regulatory relief. For decades a phalanx of powerful Democratic committee chairmen prevented meaningful regula...
I read April's "MONEY Audits the Clintons" with great interest. Your analysis of the President and Hillary's federal tax returns for the years 1980 through 1992 was welcome news. Now please analyze...
1 JOSEPHINE CAMELS RJR has added female characters to its cigarette ads. Will Philip Morris strike back with the Marlboro Madam?
MONEY's August coverage of congressional lawmakers' wasteful spending, ''What Congress Really Costs You,'' stirred passionate responses from you -- and from them. In addition, Editor's Notes told h...
Maybe it's the six bad quarters of vertically challenged growth. Maybe it's the knowledge that Europe 1992 will probably not come down in exactly the big way we'd hoped. Maybe it's the threat of gl...
We approach this item warily, as it contains a little-known fact that could easily bring down the American banking system if it ever got to be known by certain politicians. To be sure, Senator Al D...
Today, as Mr. Dole's intimates review his campaign, they look back upon an astonishing array of missed opportunities . . . Many of the campaign's problems emerged into public view in the critical d...
A male witch employed at a Canadian college is entitled to a paid religious holiday to celebrate his pagan religion, an independent arbitration board has ruled. Charles Arnold, a secretary at Humbe...
In which your correspondent resumes his never-explained custom of propounding ornately long-winded questions absolutely none of which seem to get a real response, although to be utterly fair some m...
The late word from central New Jersey is that Princeton University is still not ready to put its Social Honor Code into practice, and yet the present writer has not removed the code's controversial...
Since 1982, 29 states have undertaken ((tax)) amnesty programs as a relatively painless way to raise revenue . . . Not all states asked amnesty applicants why they were originally delinquent. But w...
A fellow could get a touch of cognitive dissonance brooding over the material in Trends in Family Income: 1970-1986, the latest unsnappily titled publication of the Congressional Budget Office. The...
TO HEAR THEM tell it, presidential candidates high-tailing out of snowy New England for Super Tuesday's Southern primaries expect nothing but sunshine and success. It's going to be a little more co...
''Parsnips are in the forefront of the national consciousness today,'' is how Bob Dole put it in the Congressional Record. The smiling Kansan added that we need government action to coordinate all ...
TO THE CHIEFS of America's largest corporations, the 1988 presidential election shapes up as a race between two old political warhorses, George Bush and Bob Dole. Perhaps a bit too confidently, the...
IT'S 8 O'CLOCK on a Wednesday evening and 45 guests have gathered at Geraldine Robertson's waterfront home on St. Simon's Island off Georgia. Dessert is done, and Robertson, who recently gave up th...
THE FINANCIAL markets tremble. The dollar glides down, or perhaps begins a dangerous free fall. The world has an urgent question: Is anyone in charge in the White House? Almost as urgent: Who will ...
EVEN BEFORE Miami model Donna Rice -- and how she spent the night of May 1 -- made headlines, Gary Hart's presidential campaign was in trouble. Though he led the Democratic polls, Hart lagged behin...
WHEN the U.S. government sold Conrail in March, records fell right and left. At a price of more than $1.6 billion, it was the largest initial public offering in U.S. history. With railroads, invest...
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ax reform will eliminate many prized breaks -- but not all. Our favorites in the new plan: -- A special dispensation for Trappist monks who sell fruitcakes by mail. -- A break for native Alaskan re...
JESSE HELMS has been a vituperative warrior of the Republican party's right wing since he arrived in the Senate in 1973. Though it doesn't love them, Congress tolerates ideologues -- they ensure th...
''This is a happy hour for American agriculture,'' glowed John R. Block, then Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture, when he announced the famous five- year deal that guaranteed Soviet purchases...
WHEN CONGRESS reconvenes in late January, a lot of well-heeled political action committees (PACs) will be targeting the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide the fate of the tax reform bill p...
Bob Dole should have listened to Ronald Reagan. The President put Social Security off limits in last year's budget fight. But Senate Majority Leader Dole insisted that reductions in Social Security...
THE MAKING AND SELLING of economic policy during the first six months of Ronald Reagan's first term seemed as smooth as a Chopin waltz. The first six months of his second term have sounded more lik...
REPUBLICAN SENATOR Bob Packwood and ultraliberal Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum don't have much in common. But they share one dubious distinction. When a score of Washington's most influentia...
AS HIS MILITARY buildup reaches its second stage, Ronald Reagan appears determined to kick in the after-burners. The budget that the President sent to Congress in early February calls for increases...
CONGRESS IS about to begin debating how to dispose of the Consolidated Rail Corp., the amalgam of six bankrupt freight lines that the government took over in 1976. Three avid bidders want to buy Co...
AS CONGRESS SHUFFLES into action, Washington business lobbyists are doping out changes in committee chairmanships, while keeping up with the latest maneuverings of powerful holdovers like Michigan ...
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