"A Coverdell martini is two olives, hold the gin," joked his former press secretary, Jonathan Baron, who now works for the decidedly more aggressive Representative Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, the majority whip.
For example, stepping into a traditional retail store means being limited to available inventory, aggressive sales representatives, and the unspoken pressure to make a purchase before exiting.
Q: Would you agree that you would be more pugnacious and aggressive than Representative Smith?
The more first round offers you get, the more aggressive your representative can be in demanding a better price and deal terms.
DREW: Another meta-comment: Note how uncritical and non-aggressive the representative of the "liberal media" moderating this event is being.
The handling of that complaint — which included an aggressive pushback by representatives from Mr. Meehan's office and congressional lawyers, who suggested she had misinterpreted the congressman's behavior — demoralized the aide.
Sean Bielat, a Republican who ran an aggressive race against Representative Barney Frank in 2010, said Tuesday that he would again seek the seat in Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District.
Mr. Previdi has a Democratic counterpart in the Fifth Congressional District in Nassau, where a first-time candidate, Mark Epstein, an environmental lawyer, has raised $200,000 to finance an aggressive campaign against Representative Raymond J. McGrath.
Despite aggressive efforts by Representative Richard A. Gephardt to quickly win the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s endorsement for the Democratic presidential nomination, the labor federation said today that it was not prepared to back anyone yet and would not decide before mid-October.
A report in The Caucus columnin some editions on Tuesdayabout an aggressive budget planby Representative Ron Paul thatwould greatly shrink the federalgovernment misstated part of thename of an agency that he hasproposed eliminating.
