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...Novak must have missed the December ’96 issue of The Washington Monthly, in which “who’s Who” reported this “new element” a year ago...

...House insiders tell us that Dick Gephardt’s fast-track victory over Bill Clinton may be a misleading indication of the minority leader’s power, which they say is actually slipping...

...His answer, “Would I consider the option seriously no matter what happens with campaign finance reform...

...As you can imagine, Bill CI i n t on’s “distinguishing characteristic” was the major source of Washington humor this fall...

...The only catch is that the bill didn’t make it to the floor before the Senate’s adjournment...

...Two trips to New Hampshire within one month this fall suggest that he’s not kidding...

...December should be named Congressional Junket Month...

...Robert Kerrey said on NBC that he would consider running for president in 2000...

...Now conies Leon Panetta, the president’s former chief of staff, with this prediction: “I’m willing to bet that within two years of retirement, he’ll be running for office again...

...One bit of good news for Gephardt is that Vic Fazio, the man who was considered most likely to beat him out, has decided to retire...

...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL George St e p h a n o po u I os’ new apartment on Riverside Drive in New York City was designed by S t e p h e n Miller Siegal, draped by Ralph Lauren, and featured in last month’s A?-chitectzwnl Digest...

...Every day dozens of gay ly for law makers in the party men and lesbians toil diligentof Jesse Helms, Bob Dornan, and the Christian Coalition,” writes The Washingtor...

...Is this the Georgie we knew Why did Sen...

...You the taxpayer either foot the bill directly or pay for it indirectly when the tab is picked up by special interests who gain influence through their largesse...

...Post‘s John Yang...

...John McCain drop the free TV provision from his campaign finance reform bill...

...Speaking of possible thirdmillennium candidates, Sen...

...Lauch Faircloth’s request and replaced him with Ken Starr -said that the only “new element” to the Carville case was that Faircloth had subsequently given Sentelle’s wife a job...

...Almost all the jokes are tasteless, but a few have been funny...

...One, Brian O’Leary Bennett, worked as an aide and later chief of staff for 12 years for Dornan-who likes to refer to gays as “sodomites...

...Senate from Arkansas in 2002...

...Yang says “virtually all those interviewed cited opposition to high taxes and a desire to curb the size and scope of the federal government...

...He and his staff have, according to Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, “taken upward of 100 trips this year courtesy of Philip Morris Cos., the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the National Hydropower Association, the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable Television Association, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, and the National Oilseed Processors Association...

...Why do the dozens do it...

...He is being accused of using White House influence to secure $33 million in government contracts for his client Molten Metal...

...Did you know that Bill Clinton’s nominee to be secretary of the Air Force, Daryl Jones, is a former Aniway salesman...

...McCain says he had to drop free time in order to get his bill to the floor...

...Robert Novak in a recent column discussing James Carville’s charges against David Sentelie-remember, he’s the judge who got rid of Robert Fiske at sen...

...Don’t you wonder what kind of mischief those oilseed processors are up to...

...It is a time when the House and the Senate are rarely in session and the members are free to make those trips to Europe, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Key Biscayne, Boca Raton, New Orleans, and other locations similarly essential to the legislative process...

...One we liked is about the old Arkansas Republican who, when told of the characteristic, exclaimed, ‘‘Ial ways knew he was crooked...

...The rumor is that Trent Lott insisted on the change and that Lott’s interest was not unrelated to his friendship with Eddie Fritts, his college roommate and now president of the National Association of Broadcasters, which is less than enthusiastic about giving free time to candidates...

...Nothing wrong with that, but the problem is that he is alleged to have done his selling to enlisted personnel serving under him while he was an Air Force captain-a bit of a no-no under Air Force standards of conduct...

...The prospect of two Republican senators from Arkansas would inspire him to get back into office...

...Thus, it seems only right that this be the month in which we honor the Hill’s champion junketeer, House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas J. Bliley...

...Many of his colleagues fear that he’s too involved with carving out an identity ?or himself distinct from Clinton and AI Gore and too little concerned with providing wise leadership for the Democrats...

...Doug Sosnick has been saying he’s leaving the White House staff for so long that he now tells friends who ask what happened that he left and came back...

...And he is suspected of having received $1 million from a developer in return for arranging to have his (and Gore’s) good friend Reed Hundt, then chairman of the FCC, agree to go along with a long-term lease in the Portals building that FCC staffers hate the idea of moving to...

...and loved...

...The interesting thing about these trips is that they are rarely paid for by the congressmen...

...You may recall that our esteemed editor predicted in the April ’97 “Tilting at Windmills” that Bill Clinton would run for the U.S...

...Speaking of AI Gore, his close friend the lobbyist Peter Knight may be in some, if not hot, very warm water...

...Speaking of McCain and Novak, the senator was recently on the “Evans & Novak” television show and was asked if he might run for president in 2000 if he was successful with his campaign finance bill...