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...guess we should all be grateful the bricks are coming through the mail, not the window." DAN PFEIFFER, a spokesman for Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, on the bricks being sent to Capitol Hill offices by advocates of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border
...guess we should all be grateful the bricks are coming through the mail, not the window." DAN PFEIFFER, a spokesman for Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, on the bricks being sent to Capitol Hill offices by advocates of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border...
...already found $90,000 wrapped in foil in the freezer of Jefferson's apartment and had a videotape of him allegedly accepting $100,000 in bribe money. But when federal agents, who had been trying to get documents from Jefferson for nine months, obtained a warrant and searched his Capitol Hill office, they found an unlikely adversary: House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The Illinois Republican argued that the search violated the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches and demanded that the FBI return the seized documents...
Bush's order didn't totally calm a jittery Capitol Hill. Two other corruption investigations by the Justice Department could implicate members of Congress: the Abramoff case and a probe of defense contractors' ties to several lawmakers. The FBI says it's just doing its job. "We go where the evidence takes us," says a senior official. "Why should a Congressman be off limits...
Early next month the culture wars will return to Capitol Hill when Senate leaders are expected, for the second time in two years, to consider a measure to amend the Constitution to limit marriage eligibility to "one man and one woman." The battle over gay marriage has been off the radar screens for a while, but, two years after Massachusetts became the first stage to legalize gay marriage, expect the old rhetoric to resurface...