Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston Jr.is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995–1999, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, but instead retired over concerns his extramarital affair would inhibit his efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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It seems to me that all of our members have the right to digest the contents of the Judiciary report,
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Look, I'm running for speaker of the House. I'm not running for sainthood, ... I'm not looking to be canonized. I am just a regular guy.
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My preference would be to get it over with this year, ... If the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete its work next week it would be pretty certain it would have to be carried over.
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stick to our principles and set reasonable goals for ourselves.
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Then Willie Nelson hits town and comes to see us at a double concert at Mother Earth... he sees all the music, and half the people got long hair and beards and the other half are all rednecks. Then they take him over to the Armadillo and it's the same way... The energy was just... I mean, I wish I wasn't so stoned back then and would have been able to take more advantage of the situation! Because anything could have happened!
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This is quite a deal. We showed up yesterday and pulled out our guitars. We were out on the curb, standing in the street, and had a rehearsal. We couldn't even remember what was on those records.
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It was so intense! At the dance hall, people hanging out of the rafters! Everybody from Austin had come over and we were cutting a Live record. That had not been top-of-the-line mobile truck.
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As a constitutional matter, I share your view that censure of the president would violate the careful balance of separation of powers and the scheme laid out by the framers (of the Constitution) to address the issue of executive misconduct,
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School-wide, there is a drop. Our department has not felt it. The reasons are well known and all have been discussed at length in the Faculty Senate: tuition increases, PeopleSoft, prerequisite blocking and low unemployment.
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Music was big in the circles that I ran in, and they certainly weren't leftists or alienated. All the high school kids went to The Music Box and The Village Swinger every weekend, and they danced their asses off. These were Dance Bands, again. Otis Reading was big with the college people then.
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Now they are going to have to fund his research and he has the opportunity to show his stuff,
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To those who are investigating me or others of my colleagues, please understand that I will not be intimidated by these efforts, ... These efforts will not deter me from performing my sworn duty under the Constitution as a member of Congress.
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We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.