Word: capitols
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...alliance, not a friendship. "DeLay admires Bush's leadership but still thinks of himself as the strongest conservative on the block," a DeLay friend says. "They perceive DeLay as a bull in a china shop. They appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under what officials call this Administration's general lack of respect for Congress. But he is also in the unique position of being the most prominent modern Republican politician in Texas to rise without the help of White House senior adviser Karl Rove, and the two have...
...Abramoff scandal has already taken down the political player who invented the system that has helped keep Republicans in power for more than a decade. The once feared DeLay?whose office had been Abramoff's biggest claim to access and influence on Capitol Hill?announced he would resign as House majority leader. "I have always acted in an ethical manner within the rules of our body and the laws of our land," DeLay wrote in a letter to his G.O.P. colleagues, but added, "I cannot allow our adversaries to divide and distract our attention." Because of his tightfisted regime that...
...honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor of K Street. And none of that even begins to address the question of whether those who dined, traveled and socialized with Abramoff might have violated Congress's own loophole-ridden rules that prohibit, for instance, lobbyists from paying for travel or taking gifts worth more...
...like guys coming out of the bush, saying, 'Hey, give me some of the money.' They'd pay one guy and the next day five guys would be calling them, guys they didn't know. The tapes are hilarious." So said a former federal prosecutor last week, but on Capitol Hill no one shared the amusement. Too many of "the guys" were members of Congress, and "the tapes" were both video and audio, catching the sight and sound of them accepting money to perform special favors ... [T]he FBI had lured the lawmakers into the focus of hidden television cameras...
...access to many of the most powerful members of Congress could take some of them down with him. The plea agreement lays out in tantalizingly oblique strokes the way Abramoff raised millions of dollars on the sly from Indian tribal clients and then bought influence on Capitol Hill through lavish gifts of money, travel and entertainment. "Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this," he told U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle. "I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused...