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...race to be the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives. The Speaker customarily doesn't even vote on the House floor, so it would have been very easy for her to stay out of the fight, at least publicly. The candidate she just endorsed, Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, is a decided underdog in the race against Maryland's Steny Hoyer, who has served as the House Minority Whip since 2003, so Pelosi might suffer a defeat only a week after ascending to her current lofty position...
...Dems gained at least a dozen G.O.P.-gerrymandered districts. (The word refers to a salamander-shaped Massachusetts district carved by Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1810.) But funny shaping did cut G.O.P. losses. For example, New York Congressman John Walsh won with 51% of the vote in his snake-like district. The past two times...
CHARLES RANGEL, Democratic Congressman from New York who is likely to be the next House Ways and Means Committee chairman, on his plan to redirect funds to his home state to account for the disproportionately high tax revenue collected there by the U.S. government...
...There were many reports of problems with the electronic voting machines, especially the new touch-screen machines. In fact, in Congressman Mark Foley's district, some of the machines were touched inappropriately." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...reason for this curious gathering is not hard to figure out. Muslim Americans in Minnesota and throughout the nation have been forging a coalition with liberals on issues like those articulated by Congressman-elect Ellison - universal health insurance, tougher environmental regulation, opposition to the Patriot Act and an immediate end to the war in Iraq...