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...Abramoff stuff hit with [former lobbyist] Jack Abramoff's pleading guilty in January. It was obvious-more obvious than that, and not because of that, the [House] leadership had to be in place before we started this year. So I stepped down as Majority Leader [as required under caucus rules when a leader is indicted] because I wanted to make sure they had a leadership. While that's going on, I'm in the middle of a primary. We won the primary. We took another look...
...many others in the House, seeing the direction that the Senate is taking, are only digging in deeper. More than a third of House Republicans belong to the anti-immigration caucus led by Congressman Tancredo of Colorado. (Only two Democrats are members.) After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, more than a dozen of them held a news conference denouncing it. "It would be like a dinner bell. 'Come one, come all,'" said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez...
...thirds of House Democrats yesterday joined the unanimous Republican caucus in supporting the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Solomon Amendment. The court handed down its unanimous opinion last Monday. The Solomon Amendment, a federal law enacted in 1994 and revised several times in the past twelve years, compels universities to allow military recruiters on their campuses or risk forgoing federal funds. For the last two years, universities have challenged the amendment on both constitutional and statutory grounds, and Harvard has lobbied against its most recent revision. But the most recent ruling dismissed the legal challenges...
...invited Pfoho residents to “catch me in the dining hall some evening” if they had more questions about the events of last month. McCarthy is the chair of the committee on degrees in environmental science and public policy, and the co-coordinator of the Caucus of Chairs, an informal group of department heads. He declined to comment for this article. ‘THIS IS DONE’ Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk show host, said last Thursday that Summers was brought down by “a bunch of angry feminazis...
...Americans of color will not be fully empowered until all Americans are empowered,” said Cummings, who recently served as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. “It is incorrect to speak about civil rights in the past tense...