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...Much Will it Hurt the GOP? The congressman's resignation doesn't just open up a seat for the Democrats in Florida. It could do major damage to the party's reelection hopes nationwide
...former Speaker Tip O'Neill still led the House of Representatives today, the Congressional page program might be shut down once and for all. In 1983, he threatened to do just that in the wake of another scandal involving a Congressman and a teenage page. At the time, the House was investigating allegations that two Congressmen had sexual relations with teenage pages. Representatives Daniel Crane, an Illinois Republican, and Gerry Studds, a Democrat from Massachusetts, were eventually censured for having had sex with a female page and male page, respectively...
...Behind Foley's Swift Fall From Grace Thanks to his previous work against pedophiles, the Florida congressman who sent possibly inappropriate e-mails to a teenager had little choice but to resign. Now the G.O.P. has yet another vulnerable seat to defend
...thirds of Americans aware of the lurid e-mails set to congressional pages by a G.O.P congressman believe Republican leaders tried to cover up the scandal - and one quarter of them say the affair makes them less likely to vote for Republican candidates in their districts come November. Those are among the findings of a new TIME poll conducted this week among 1,002 randomly-selected voting-age Americans...
...national level, Democrats have launched a coordinated attack on Taylor for being more concerned with the interests of the G.O.P. and the White House than his home district. "Congressman Taylor has been a rubber stamp for the President and the Republican leadership and in many cases he has been out of touch with western North Carolina priorities," Sarah Feinberg, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told TIME. She pointed to his recent non-vote during the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Taylor had originally said he would vote against the free trade agreement with Central America - which...