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With at least $47,900 in contributions, Boland is Boehner's fourth-most-generous individual donor.
Richard Trumka: Big Insurance, Pharma, Wall Street and John Boehner Richard Trumka 2010
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Kevin Boland also resigned from the Dáil in 1970 in the wake of the arms crisis, but did not fight the subsequent by-election either (he did have a go in the next general election but lost).
Lisbon looking wobbly nwhyte 2008
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Suicide, that's the word in Boland's mind, affixed snugly to Doris's grinning face like the box-lettered caption to a cartoon gone bloody.
The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011
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Democrats in Congress had passed a measure called the Boland Amendment that barred military aid to right-wing rebels in Central America, a lethal pet project of Team Reagan.
Will Bunch: Reagan, Bush and How Presidents Got To Be Above the Law 2009
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Indeed, Weinberger was one of the first officials outside the White House to learn that Reagan had put the arm on Saudi Arabia to give the contras $1 million a month in 1984, as Congress was cutting off the CIA's covert assistance to the contras through what was known as the Boland Amendment.
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Indeed, Weinberger was one of the first officials outside the White House to learn that Reagan had put the arm on Saudi Arabia to give the contras $1 million a month in 1984, as Congress was cutting off the CIA's covert assistance to the contras through what was known as the Boland Amendment.
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Martin Druce's suave voice recalled Boland from the revery into which he had lapsed.
Little Lost Sister Virginia Brooks
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"Boland," said the sheriff solemnly, "take this scoundrel out of my jail!
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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This was the same position Congressman Dick Cheney took twenty years earlier in the minority report in arguing that the Boland Amendment was unconstitutional.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Cheney has repeatedly taken the position that limits on executive power, like the Impoundment Control Act and the Boland Amendment and the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for long-term American involvement in foreign hostilities, are unconstitutional infringements of executive power.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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