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	Dick Gephardt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party.
		Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, and Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.
		Gephardt is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_Gephardt (1372 words)

	CNN.com - Gephardt: U.S. should focus on 'root causes' of terrorism - Jan. 13, 2004
		Dick Gephardt took on the Bush administration Tuesday, tying the nation's foreign relations strategy to its economic policies and warning that alienation of other democratic nations would seriously damage America's ability to be a world leader.
		Gephardt, the Missourian seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that the United States should look beyond a simplistic good guy-bad guy world view and address the "root causes" of terrorism.
		Gephardt also defended his vote to give Bush the authority to wage war in Iraq, saying that he believed the intelligence he was given at the time and adding that if the intelligence was wrong, then the process that gathered it needs to be fixed.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/13/elec04.prez.gephardt.speech (558 words)

	See Dick Win
		Gephardt's plan would stimulate the economy through health care benefits for every American and by working towards fiscal responsibility instead of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that have left the federal government with nearly half a trillion dollars in new debt this year alone.
		Gephardt stands triumphantly with leaders of the United Steelworkers of America after their 1.2 million members overwhelmingly chose Gephardt to be their choice for president in 2004.
		Dick Gephardt's record and his plan for health care for every American has convinced officials in both Iowa and New Hampshire that he is best candidate for the Democratic nomination.
	seedickwin.blogspot.com (5719 words)

	CNN.com - Gephardt launches presidential campaign - Feb. 19, 2003
		Gephardt, 62, also sought to distinguish himself from lesser-known Democratic rivals by embracing his long record in politics.
		Gephardt, the son of a milk truck driver who belonged to the Teamsters, returned home in an effort to soften his public image and argue that his roots shaped his political career.
		Dean, Edwards, Gephardt, Kerry and Lieberman have gained distance from the rest of the pack thus far, either by simple name recognition, frequent travel or strong early efforts to organize in key states.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/19/gephardt.ap/index.html (1078 words)

	The Vindicator
		Gephardt wasted little time blasting the Bush administration for what he said was its poor record on health care, environmental and energy issues, as well as its lack of support for labor unions.
		Gephardt said the United States has lost thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs, partly because of bad trade deals and corporate tax breaks, resulting in many jobs' going to Mexico and other countries because of cheap labor.
		Gephardt called it "immoral" that many people in the United States have lost their health-care insurance and said that Kerry will repair that industry.
	www.vindy.com /local_news/303567862986212.php (528 words)

	Dick Gephardt for President 1988 Campaign Brochure
		Dick Gephardt first promised tax reform in 1976 and stayed with it until it got done.
		Dick Gephardt started his political career as a precinct committeeman and worked his way up.
		Gephardt was elected Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984, where his job has been to lead the formulation of Democratic policy on major issues.
	www.4president.org /brochures/dickgephardt1988brochure.htm (1558 words)

	Who Is Dick Gephardt?
		Hailed by U.S.A. Today as "the perfect combination of a fiery populist and a quiet, back-room pragmatist," Dick Gephardt was elected in 1994 to serve as House Democratic Leader, the top- ranking Democratic leader in the United States House of Representatives.
		Gephardt, winning the post of Democratic Leader by an overwhelming margin, vowed to devote his tenure to regaining a Democratic majority in the people's House, and rededicating his party to improving the economic lives of working Americans.
		Gephardt ultimately withdrew from the race, but not before winning three statewide primaries and helping to frame the economic issues that dominated the election.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/gephardt/bio.html (448 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Tricky 'Dick' undergoes liberal makeover
		When Dick Gephardt first was elected to Congress in 1976 from a heavily Catholic middle-class district in suburban St. Louis, his politics seemed to be a lot closer to those of his father than they are 25 years later.
		Gephardt began positioning himself as the labor-union candidate when he first ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988, and still is trying to win the Democratic nomination by making himself the candidate of organized labor.
		Nadler says Gephardt, who also has a proposal to require workplaces to offer pensions, may want to increase taxes on private saving so that individuals will be more dependent on the government and union pensions for their retirement money and vote accordingly.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32671 (2950 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Gephardt, the Quiet Candidate for No. 2
		But Gephardt's advisers believe that those differences, as well as concerns about Gephardt being a figure of the past, will not be decisive in determining whether he is chosen.
		Gephardt, 63, a lawyer and 14-term House member, became the House Democratic leader after the 1994 elections and served until he stepped down to run for president after his party failed to regain control of the House in 2002.
		Some Democrats, even admirers of Gephardt, fear that he represents the past, is too rooted in the old Democratic Party, is too tied to organized labor and would complicate Kerry's efforts to present himself to voters as a centrist Democrat.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A24461-2004Jul2?language=printer (1272 words)

	2004 Presidential Candidates' Views on the Middle East: Richard Gephardt
		Gephardt will expand federal jurisdiction over hate crimes at home and work to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, to clearly affirm American support for a whole Jerusalem at the center of the Israeli state.
		Gephardt believes that the long-term security of Israel will be enhanced if meaningful and lasting peace agreements can be reached with the Palestinian people and its neighbors.
		GEPHARDT: I don't think you can negotiate with terrorists, people who have decided that violence is the way that they are going to settle their problems.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/gephardt.html (1290 words)

	Dick Gephardt
		Dick Gephardt was an Eagle Scout, and always had an interest in politics.
		Gephardt's son Matt had cancer as an infant, and Gephardt later supported national health insurance because, he said, he remembered meeting the un-insured parents of other kids with cancer.
		Gephardt ran for President in 1988, losing the Democratic nomination to Michael Dukakis, and again in 2004, losing the nomination to John Kerry.
	www.nndb.com /people/447/000022381 (340 words)

	Astrology Software for Research - Dick Gephardt - astrology chart
		Dick was the second son born to Louis Gephardt, a milk-truck driver turned real estate salesman and Loreen Cassell Gephardt, a legal secretary.
		Gephardt, an avid boy scout in his youth, became fascinated by politics in high school and, after graduating from Northwestern University in 1962, received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.
		Dick Gephardt has built a political campaign and life strategy around the premise that “nice guys finish first.” Gephardt is the quintessential nice guy.
	www.astrodatabank.com /nm/GephardtDick.htm (884 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Then, seemingly out of nowhere, it was announced that Dick Gephardt, leader of the House Democrats, had cut a deal -- a total capitulation to the president's demands, in fact -- with the White House, undermining the negotiating power of Senate Democrats and GOP moderates alike.
		Gephardt was an early leader of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council in the '80s, only to become the leader of the Democratic left by the late 90s, seriously contemplating a 2000 presidential bid to prevent the DLC-ification of the party under Al Gore.
		Gephardt even managed to flip-flop on gay marriage within a single sentence last November: "I do not support gay marriage, but I hope the Massachusetts Legislature will act in a manner that is consistent" with the judicial ruling mandating that gays be allowed to marry.
	www.prospect.org /web/view-web.ww?id=7851 (1554 words)

	Dick Gephardt on Free Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Gephardt amendment is in law in the country, and it got markets open, like in Japan, where we've had to face unfair trade practices.
		GEPHARDT: I'm for a progressive trade policy and I will be a president who will lead not only America but the entire world toward a trade policy that will help every business and every worker in the world.
		The initiative became known as the Gephardt Amendment.At the same time, the true nature of trade barriers around the globe began to be uncovered.
	www.issues2000.org /2004/Dick_Gephardt_Free_Trade.htm (2319 words)

	News from Dick Gephardt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dick Gephardt today today warned of the threat posed by a second George Bush term in the White House and offered himself as the candidate with a demonstrated commitment to protecting retirement security.
		Dick Gephardt's campaign this week unveiled a new tool on its website to help Americans determine just how much their family will benefit under Dick Gephardt's health care plan versus the Bush tax cuts.
		Gephardt's campaign launched the calculator on the heals of a new Kaiser Family Foundation study that found American workers are being asked to pay 48% more out of their own pockets for health care benefits.
	www.gazetteonline.com /iowacaucus/candidate_news/gephardt34.aspx (1021 words)

	Dick Gephardt
		So when Dick Gephardt held a meeting at the Joe King’s Shoes store in Concord, New Hampshire on a Friday afternoon (August 8), I kept trying to find significance in the “Achieve New Balance” banner that stretched over the display of running shoes behind him.
		Dick Gephardt looks like he’s auditioning for the talk show host role: He sat in the center of a row of stools under the New Balance banner, surrounded by his panel – local people whose situations point out the problems Gephardt wants to solve.
		Gephardt does this by reimbursing companies for the first 60% of the cost of their employees’ coverage and 60% of whatever else they pick up.
	www.gurus.com /dougdeb/politics/Gephardt.html (3718 words)

	CNN.com - House Democrats look for new leader - Nov. 8, 2002
		Gephardt, 61, whose decision also allows him to clear the way for a possible 2004 presidential bid, has led Democrats in the House of Representatives for the past eight years.
		Gephardt said he wanted "to step out of a day-to-day management role and talk to a broader audience about our nation and our goals for our children." He is considered a possible 2004 presidential contender.
		One Gephardt adviser told CNN he would expect Gephardt to make a decision about running for the presidency by the end of the year.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/07/elec02.democrats/index.html (1000 words)

	FOXNews.com - Gephardt to Drop Out - You Decide 2004
		DES MOINES, Iowa —; Rep. Dick Gephardt (search) conceded defeat in the Democratic presidential race Monday night after a weak fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses (search) and aides said he would fly home to make a formal withdrawal.
		Gephardt's intended withdrawal came as no surprise in the wake of the caucus results.
		Gephardt had counted on a win in Iowa to propel him past New Hampshire and into other early primary states, where his campaign has been advertising on television.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,108915,00.html (847 words)

	Richard Gephardt - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dick Gephardt (Richard Andrew Gephardt) (1941-) was a Democrat representing Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1977 until January 3, 2005.
		Gephardt's decision to turn the spotlight on his [30-year old] daughter [Chrissy] underscores his own evolution in 27 years in Congress.
		Mike Wilson,, "Gephardt to End Presidential Campaign", Associated Press, 20 January 2004: "Dick Gephardt is conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to one of his rivals, acknowledging after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa that 'this didn't come out the way we wanted.'"
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Richard_Gephardt (1119 words)

	TIME.com: Dick Gephardt Wants to Win Back the House -- Page 1
		That's why Dick Gephardt, the Democratic minority leader of the House of Representatives, found himself having coffee one morning last week with nine party activists at Mr.
		Gephardt said what he always says—all he's thinking about now is winning back the House—and hopped into a minivan for another 14-hour day of stumping for his Democrats, who need just six more seats to take the majority.
		Gephardt urges his candidates to hold back spending on television commercials until the end, an idea he took from Gingrich's '94 playbook.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,338581,00.html (1674 words)

	Dick Gephardt: an insider looking out \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gephardt also professes unconcern that only one sitting member of the House - where the mandate is to represent constituents' parochial needs, not construct a vision for the nation - has ever been elected president (James Garfield, 1880).
		Gephardt understands that in marketing his brand - the new and improved Dick Gephardt, who didn't emerge from a test tube in the Capitol building - he can't indulge in Beltway shorthand.
		Gephardt's mother's experience as a secretary - five jobs during her life, but only one that paid a pension, just $42 a month - opens the way into his universal pension plan.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1112/p01s04-uspo.html (1919 words)

	In the Northwest: 'Old' Dick Gephardt is showing grit and tenacity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gephardt is a fellow Midwesterner from neighboring Missouri who won the 1988 Iowa caucuses.
		Gephardt is running this time as a very domestic guy.
		Gephardt doesn't seem intent on soaking the rich but at least appears ready -- on occasion -- to send them to the showers.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/109154_joel19.shtml (1048 words)

	Gephardt skips 85% of House votes=TheHill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) has missed 162 votes in the House this year — 85 percent of the total — prompting Republicans to charge that he has abandoned his congressional duties in his pursuit of the presidency.
		The Republican National Committee (RNC) has seized on the absenteeism to point out that several of Gephardt’s missed votes have been on legislative and policy matters that are centerpieces to his campaign.
		House records show Gephardt also missed votes on other issues that are frequent themes in his presidential candidacy, including welfare reform, human cloning, healthcare, homeland security, education and tax cuts.
	www.hillnews.com /news/052003/gephardt.aspx (718 words)

	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker with Richard Gephardt -- May 29, 1997
		Some have said this is Gephardt's first step towards announcing his own intention to run for president in 2000 while others believe Gephardt is simply sticking to his ideological guns.
		DICK GEPHARDT: And in my view, this budget agreement is a budget of many deficits: a deficit of principle, a deficit of fairness, a deficit of tax justice, and worst of all, a deficit of dollars.
		DICK GEPHARDT: If you give normal trading status to a country that has no human rights and no worker rights, you are ensuring that you're going to be competing with a nation that has a very, very low standard of living with no hope that the standard of living will go up.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/may97/gephardt_5-29a.html (688 words)

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