Word: chairmen
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...ignorance defense has not worked for other board chairmen in trials this past year, Androphy says. He believes that Skilling's defense will argue that all the deals at Enron started off perfectly legit and legal-until people like Fastow, the former chief financial officer, committed crimes-but that all along he believed the company was following the letter...
...high-level appointee would be likely someone already in Bush's inner circle, such as former Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans; Budget Director Joshua B. Bolten; U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman; Karen Hughes, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; or former Republican National Committee chairmen Marc F. Racicot and Ed Gillespie. Former Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, who helped with Bush's two Supreme Court confirmations, was also mentioned. A Republican official familiar with White House deliberations, while careful to stress that only the President knows what is going to happen, said: "If the President...
Republican Party chairmen, by custom and practice, don't pick favorites in presidential primaries...
...according to the source, that Ney, the chairman of the powerful Committee on House Administration, and his staff repeatedly demanded help in raising cash for the National Republican Campaign Committee--the "NRCC" of Abramoff's e-mail. Under then House majority leader Tom DeLay, Ney and his fellow G.O.P. chairmen had to meet steep fund-raising quotas or risk losing their plum positions...
...merely imposes reasonable regulation to protect legitimate privacy rights,” and that the president is required to follow the restrictions laid out in the FISA statute. In addition to sending the letter to the leaders of both chambers of Congress, the professors also sent it to the chairmen and ranking members of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. The other signers included former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan, a former HLS professor who has often collaborated with Tribe, and Walter E. Dellinger, a Duke professor who authored the friend of the court brief signed by 40 HLS professors...