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...Harvard Democrats introduced U.S. Congressman Barney Frank ’62, D-Mass., to the world of politics, and last night he returned to Cambridge as their guest to offer his take on the current political landscape to an audience of about 60.His speech in the Eliot Junior Common Room focused mainly on his concerns with the Republican party and the Bush administration.“This administration has the economics of Calvin Coolidge and the social views of William Jennings Bryan,” Frank said. At one point in his speech, which lasted more than an hour...
...party that explicitly and implicitly condemns their sexual orientation. Opposition to gay marriage is written into the Republican party’s official platform and the supposed tension is only perpetuated through high-profile “outing” incidents involving conservative public figures like former Virginia congressman Ed Schrock and Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz...
Last week produced the biggest development yet in the case: a plea agreement by public relations man Scanlon, who was once a press secretary for Texas Congressman Tom DeLay. In the agreement, Scanlon acknowledged that he and "Lobbyist A" (Abramoff) showered "Representative #1" (Ohio Congressman Bob Ney) and his staff with lavish trips, tickets to sporting events and concerts, sports-arena boxes for fund raisers, campaign contributions, golf outings and free meals at Abramoff's "upscale restaurant," Signatures. The plea agreement alleges that Ney, chairman of the House Administration Committee, provided "official acts and influence," including introducing legislation, and giving...
...arranged--and sometimes paid for--to Scotland and the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff's now defunct restaurant Signatures was host to more than 60 fund raisers for members of Congress and often neglected to send a bill. At the lobbyist's delicatessen Stacks, Abramoff even named a sandwich after Congressman Eric Cantor at a $500-a-plate fund raiser in January 2003. (Cantor later asked the deli to switch his namesake sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, "a deli special that exudes Jewish power," wrote the Jewish newspaper the Forward...
Some Republicans are worried that the Democrats could win that kind of straight-up fight on abortion. Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, whose previous leadership job was to raise money for Republican House members up for re-election, broke with the White House message and declared last week that overturning Roe v. Wade could "produce a political backlash" among crucial suburban voters. As for a general attack on Alito, the numbers seem to break the Democrats' way. Pollster Garin, in a survey conducted before the 1985 memo came out, found that only 43% of those polled said they thought...