Colt Solid: Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman dies at 82

Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman dies at 82

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Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of homeland terrorist attacks before 9/11, has died. He was 82. He died Monday night, according to his Washington, D.C., firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group. The feisty New Hampshire Republican went to the Senate in 1981 with a reputation as a tough prosecutor, and was called on by Senate leaders, and later by presidents of both parties, to tackle tough assignments. He is perhaps most well-known from his Senate years as co-sponsor of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-cutting law. He left the Senate in 1993, frustrated that the law never reached its potential because Congress, President Ronald Reagan and the President George H.W. Bush played politics instead of insisting on spending cuts.

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Sen. Warren B. Rudman

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.906121

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0	"No one seemed to take it seriously, and no one in the media seemed to care," Rudman said ...
0	"No one seemed to take it seriously, and no one in the media seemed to care," Rudman said in 2007. "The report went into a dustbin in the White House."
0.278167	"Had we stuck to that plan, had the Congress not failed to follow it through -- in fact, had presidents not failed to follow through -- we would not be where we are today," Rudman said. ...
-0.19496	Rudman called the defense "arrogant, unrepentant, and a smear on this institution."
0.145484	"It isn't a vote I'm proud of, but it's a textbook example of how our system works," Rudman wrote ...
0.0605668	"It isn't a vote I'm proud of, but it's a textbook example of how our system works," Rudman wrote in "Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate."
0	He said he didn't think Thomas was "even close to being" ...
0	"Finally, I grabbed his shoulders," Rudman wrote. ...
0	"The architects had no idea the building would be in Senator Rudman's name or they wouldn't have built such a small building," he joked. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 9 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2892578 Mean: 0.032139755555556 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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George H.W. Bush

Overall Sentiment: -0.148729

Relevance: 0.190583

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-0.177578	"People are willing to risk their lives for their country in times of war," he said ...
-0.168801	"People are willing to risk their lives for their country in times of war," he said at the time. "They ought to be able to risk an election in a time of economic trouble."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.346379 Mean: -0.1731895 Standard Deviation: 0

David Souter

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Ronald Reagan

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Clarence Thomas

Overall Sentiment: 0.0796898

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0	"If my vote had been the deciding one, I would have voted against Thomas, no matter what the consequences," he wrote. ...
0.0602552	"If my vote had been the deciding one, I would have voted against Thomas, no matter what the consequences," he wrote. "But once it was clear that he would be confirmed, I made a political decision."
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Sen. Gary Hart

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Alan Cranston

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David

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Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North

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-0.269049	"The American people have the constitutional right to be wrong," he told ...
-0.0837233	"The American people have the constitutional right to be wrong," he told North. "And what Ronald Reagan thinks or Oliver North thinks or what I think or what anybody else thinks makes not a whit."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.3527723 Mean: -0.17638615 Standard Deviation: 0

Charles Keating Jr

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John Durkin

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Sen. Paul Tsongas

Overall Sentiment: 0.195065

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Anita Hill

Overall Sentiment: -0.656544

Relevance: 0.112322

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0458326

Relevance: 0.328412

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