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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...
...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...
...vaccines have lately begun to look more promising. Wood Mackenzie expects the market to grow from $9 billion in 2004 to $13 billion by 2009. Why? Ironically enough, Chiron's 2004 snafu had a bracing effect on Capitol Hill. Beset by fears of a possible bird-flu pandemic, Congress last month approved $3.8 billion for flu-pandemic preparation, most of it earmarked for buying vaccines and medicines. The defense appropriations bill carrying the provision also controversially provides vaccine manufacturers with a virtually airtight shield from liability...
...five years. She is also pushing the ideas of Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School's innovation guru who says big organizations must open up to new ideas and technology or they will get left behind. Says Pelosi: "We cannot be encumbered by the old way of doing things." Capitol Hill car pool, anyone...
...President did, however, seem to want to discourage the Republicans on Capitol Hill from holding hearings on the domestic spying policy. "Any public hearings on programs will say to the enemy: 'Here's what they do; adjust,'" he said. "This is a war. Of course, we consult with Congress and have been consulting with Congress and will continue to do so." Bush reacted with both the evil eye and the scolding finger when Peter Baker of the Washington Post asked: "If the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that...