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...Abramoff scandal has unfolded, alarm has spread on Capitol Hill that Justice Department prosecutors are building corruption cases on legally reported campaign donations--a worry that revelations of the alleged Ney quid pro quo are sure to fuel. Although refusing to comment on the specifics of the Ney case, a U.S. government expert on criminal law made the following point: "Contributions are lawful only if made in support of a lawmaker's policies. They are clearly illegal as part of a prenegotiated deal involving a quid pro quo." For a host of nervous politicians familiar with the murky ways...
...smiled again when the paper ran a list of Boehner's "K Street Cabinet," loyal lobbyists and other power brokers who would help run the show if he achieved his longtime ambition of becoming House Speaker or majority leader. With Tom DeLay's machine still in charge of the Capitol, those were the credentials that would get an aspiring lawmaker taken seriously...
...will that renewal be more than cosmetic? DeLay's announcement, marking the rueful surrender of a warrior who once wielded such unquestioned power that no bill could reach the President's desk without his assent, touched off a furious scramble at the Capitol among ambitious members who want a leadership seat when the music stops on Feb. 2, the date set for internal House G.O.P. voting. The election falls two days after President George W. Bush's planned State of the Union address and could do as much to define the Republican Party at the start of the midterm election...
...pretty for Democrats. After three days of testimony, Judge Samuel Alito appears headed for confirmation to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, and already political operatives on the Hill have turned to damage control and exploitation. Around the hearing room in the Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill, Republicans are patting themselves on the back for their successful defense of the nominee, and are talking cheerfully of their expected victory on the Senate floor later this month. Democrats are licking their self-inflicted wounds, trying to figure out if they can somehow turn the timing of that...
Resumes don?t get much better than this: Princeton; Yale Law School; high-powered Washington jobs; 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. But for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, a lifetime's work has boiled down to one public performance this week on Capitol Hill. For months now, Senators from both parties have said Alito's fate hangs not on his record, but on how he does in the Judiciary Committee hearings that opened Monday at noon in the Hart Senate office building. Democrats have mined Alito's writings and come up with what they...