Failing to achieve a satisfactory outcome for a constituent who suffered undiagnosed pain and was one of the first constituency cases I became involved in.
"Marsha", I said, "what on earth are you doing with such mountain of paper?" "These are my constituency cases," he replied.
They spend much more time dealing with constituency cases, so there's probably the same amount of work, but the distribution of work is very different.
Two years before Neil Kinnock killed off the Trotskyite infiltration of the Labour party, some of us prepared the way by arguing, in the constituencies, the case for the militants' expulsion.
"Those sometimes come into conflict, and it requires a lot of sensitivity and building a lot of dialogue and trust with your constituency, in our case Holocaust survivors.
Eisenhower, like Mr. Clinton, moved to the center on the issues of the day, at the expense of all-out support from his core constituency, in his case the Republican right.
In "How Clinton Is Like Ike" (Op-Ed, June 19), Stephen E. Ambrose rightly suggests that Dwight D. Eisenhower, like Bill Clinton, "moved to the center on the issues of the day, at the expense of all-out support from his core constituency, in his case the Republican right".
Millhouse was a vocal advocate of his broader constituency, championing their case in a party dominated by rural conservatives.
That could lead Obama to face an early decision on whether to use his veto or acquiesce and anger a major Democratic constituency — in this case, environmental activists.
(The skillfully trolled constituencies, in this case, would presumably be German or British).
