61.   It would also undermine presidential authority by creating an unnecessary national security commission designed primarily to amplify the voice of the Republican Congressional leadership.

62.   It will take a decisive election and a shakeup of the current congressional leadership to set things right in the divided House that is this House.

63.   Lindsey made that case to the congressional leadership Wednesday during the meeting with Greenspan, people who had been briefed on the session said.

64.   Massachusetts needs a Republican senator to put it back inside the inner councils of congressional leadership.

65.   Menendez is vice chairman, the only Hispanic in either party to hold a congressional leadership post that high.

66.   Most, if not all, House Republicans are expected to oppose the health care plans supported by Clinton and the Democratic congressional leadership.

67.   Neither the president nor the congressional GOP leadership should be proud of their behavior during the Monica Lewinsky affair.

68.   Nearly a century ago, a cadre of progressive Republicans bolted from their conservative congressional leadership and an inept President William Howard Taft over similar issues, particularly taxes.

69.   No excess John Dingell ever committed, however, compares to the arrogance and roughshod bullying of the current GOP congressional leadership.

70.   New rules, new political styles and the passing of legislative generations hobbled the power of the old congressional leadership cadres.