The bride wore a dress made of cocktail napkins collected during her time waitressing — a quirky choice representative of her quirky personality.
"With less than 10 months remaining in his administration, Bill Clinton faces a very clear choice," Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House Republican whip, told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Libraries are free to nominate whatever novel they wish, as long as they consider their choice representative of "excellence", but it is clear from the list that libraries interpret this differently, which results in its unpredictability and democracy.
But as the bromance between Mr. Romney and his vice-presidential choice, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, blossoms into new territory, even the candidate's most treasured rituals are open to tinkering at the hands of his younger (and fitter) running mate.
The storm caused Mitt Romney to cancel a full day of events in Virginia, leaving him little time to do anything else but join his vice-presidential choice, Representative Paul D. Ryan, inside a cramped high school gymnasium where campaign posters calling for a "Real Recovery" mingled with a billboard for the Celina High School girls' basketball team.
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Just as the Texas state legislature is being controlled by a small number of fundamentalists seeking to control the bodies of Texan women, so too does Australia have its own anti-choice representatives.
At the Judiciary Committee hearing, pro-choice representatives offered 15 amendments to the bill to ensure that women would retain their ability to access critical care.
The pro-choice representatives were being largely ignored, until Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte finally stood and asked, "At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice in order to recognized by the male colleagues in this room?" That's when the cheering began upstairs -- and it never stopped until the bill was dead at midnight.
Another of Mr. Romney's potential choices, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, drew more mixed reactions.
New to my job and with fire in my belly about women's reproductive rights, I joined a panel as the pro-choice representative debating with an anti-abortion speaker at a 6th form religious education conference.
