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...Meanwhile, Republicans were looking in disarray - even before the announcement this week that Tom DeLay would give up his House seat. Some House Republicans were quietly rasing concerns after Majority Leader John Boehner questioned the value of a 700-mile fence for the U.S.-Mexico border that was part of an immigration bill passed by the House in December, while Senate Republicans questioned if their leader, Bill Frist, was allowing his presidential ambitions to get in the way of passing immigration legislation. And as the Senate moved forward with a lenient immigration reform plan, a group of almost two dozen...
...said two days after the Senate committee's action. "We're not going to discount anything right now. Our first priority is to protect the border. And we also know there is a need in some sections of the economy for a guest-worker program." House majority leader John Boehner has begun talking dismissively about the feasibility of the 700-mile fence that the House voted to build along the border...
...much the Senate's action will really matter. The agreement will have to pass muster in the House of Representatives, which has been much less enthusiastic about the reforms - somewhat surprisingly, since the members of Congress closest to Abramoff were mainly House Republicans. New House Majority Leader John Boehner has pushed for a go-slow approach on the reforms, although he says the House will take them up over the next month. Boehner and House Speaker Dennis Hastert had publicly disagreed about a proposed ban on private travel, although Boehner has now suggested he could support a temporary ban until...
...issue from Republicans, attacking several key Republicans as being beholden to special interest groups. A group called the Campaign for a Cleaner Congress, affiliated with a liberal-leaning group called American Family Voices, is putting out an analysis today that shows over the last six years that Boehner, the No. 2 Republican in the House, has taken more than 100 trips to locations other than his congressional district that were funded by his political action committee, his campaign committee or private groups, all of which receive much of their funds from lobbyists. The group says Boehner takes more trips outside...
...such favors as earmarks-the suddenly controversial system by which the House and Senate Appropriations Committees dish out tens of billions of dollars in pork from the $843 billion a year in discretionary spending they doled out for this year. President Bush and new House Majority Leader John Boehner are now calling for reform of the clubby earmark game. But Appropriations Committee members and the many other pork enthusiasts in Congress have long staved off such change-partly because constituents have seldom got mad at their own representatives for bringing home the bacon...