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...years ago, the President lacks a single senior staffer who has ever been elected to Congress. At various times, all of Bush's predecessors found a reason to check this box: Bill Clinton had longtime California lawmaker Leon Panetta as chief of staff, Bush's father had former congressman Henson Moore as a deputy chief of staff, and Ronald Reagan had former Senator Howard Baker as his chief of staff as well. If Bush cared about working with Congress, one lawmaker said, he would have some people around who actually worked there before...
...Unfazed by the outcry, the government appears ready to act aggressively: on Saturday police raided the offices of an opposition newspaper, and several Arroyo critics, including leftist Congressman Crispin Beltran, were reportedly detained for questioning. But the real hinge remains the military?Arroyo cannot remain in power without their support. Though top army leaders have repeatedly pledged their allegiance to Arroyo's administration, 14 junior officers were briefly detained last Wednesday for alleged involvement in a separate coup plot, and rumors of unrest among the armed forces have become common. In her televised address on Friday, Arroyo assured the nation...
...House and Senate ethics committees-the only panels with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, regardless of who holds the majority-enforce the ethics rules each chamber sets up to govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a congressman or an aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times...
...Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., called on students to actively participate in politics as future leaders in an address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night...
...back as 1996 but were only recently disclosed highlighted what critics view as glaring weaknesses in the federal government's oversight of nuclear energy. So it was that earlier this week, just hours after the emergency at the LaSalle County nuclear plant and loud complaints from Republican Congressman Jerry Weller of Illinois, the NRC decided to launch a wide probe of all nuclear power operations in Illinois, which has the highest number of plants (6) and reactors (11) of any state in the U.S. As it happens, they are all owned by Exelon, a Chicago-based giant with some...