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...long-running travails of Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel.) When Bush ran for President, he, like Obama, suggested he would regularly cross his party's congressional wing when he thought they were dead wrong. And Obama, like Bush, has lashed himself many times over to the political fortunes of the Capitol Hill portion of his party, allowing the agenda and vision of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, majority leader Harry Reid and a covey of mostly liberal committee chairs to define the public image of the Democratic Party and determine what his Administration can accomplish...
...graduate of Colgate University in upstate New York and Georgetown Law. He's worked for the parliamentarian's office since 1977, and starting four years after that, he and former parliamentarian Bob Dove have effectively rotated what must be one of the most thankless jobs on Capitol Hill. They kept switching off because various congressional leaders fired one or the other in frustration. Dove served under Republicans from 1981-87, when he was fired by Robert Byrd after Dems took control. Frumin ran things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when he was fired...
...states such as California, Colorado and Oregon, it is hard to think about politics and government without speaking about ballot initiatives - some of which can come crashing down on a state capitol like a tsunami. The so-called Progressive Era in U.S. history (from the 1880s to the 1920s) bestowed the secret ballot and direct elections for the U.S. Senate and the city manager, as well as the initiative, the referendum and the recall. The latter, of course, transformed Arnold Schwarzenegger the movie star into Arnold the Gubernator when the actor became California governor after voters chose to recall Democrat...
...hauling the top brass of the world's largest automaker to Capitol Hill for a public flogging, House members got to vent their outrage at Toyota's sclerotic response to the crisis. So far the once revered company has had to recall more than 8 million vehicles for issues ranging from troublesome floor mats to sticky gas pedals to faulty brakes. But several committee members maintained that Toyota has failed to address the possibility that scrambled computers in its cars could be the culprit. In a blistering letter submitted to Toyota's U.S. president, James Lentz, before the hearing, Representatives...
...owns a 61% stake in competitor General Motors and an interest in Chrysler. Under questioning from Democratic Representative John Dingell of Michigan, Lentz denied that the company believed politics helped spur the inquiry. Other reports, however, suggested that Toyota - which has 172,000 U.S. employees and a well-oiled Capitol Hill lobbying operation that has spent nearly $25 million over the past five years - could just as easily be the beneficiary of government favoritism as the victim. (See "Who Benefits from Toyota's Recall Problem...