I like that, I like that!" "Looking good!" the aide said.
"You can't manage all these group homes from a telephone," he said, adding, "there are a lot of good developmental aides who are put in bad situations by management".
Shortly before 7, hundreds of House members began filing in to vote on the historic measure before them; passage looked good, but aides to the Republican leadership were still working the floor, pressing the uncommitted.
Mr. Clinton, meanwhile, continues backing his No. 2. The two men are on good terms, aides say, having put behind them the impeachment matter and a spat over whether Mr. Gore was distancing himself from Mr. Clinton.
Aide: Good start, sir. Shall we try that once more?
"When Hilary left the office he had a good speech," one aide recalled, saying that Benn underlined the final version of his speech for cadence and pauses.
Losing Weiner is "not that big of a deal, but he was good," said the aide.
"People felt like, Why rock the boat on a good situation?" the aide tells me.
Good workers, these aides said, would be rewarded while unproductive workers might be persuaded to shape up or leave the city's work force.
All senators are only as good as their aides -- and each has an average of 43 of them, not counting the committee staff.
