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...from one of his own sources to another arm of the Republican National Committee, an action that violates campaign finance law. The scope of DeLays unethical behavior, however, spans far beyond the indictment itself. DeLay has already been formally sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee for promising a retiring congressman to endorse his son for election to his seat if he voted for President Bushs Medicare plan. That same sanction also admonished him for improperly attempting to use the Federal Aviation Administrations resources to locate Texas lawmakers who had holed up in Oklahoma to protest DeLays aggressive redistricting plan. DeLay...
...downstairs to the majority leader's spacious suite of Capitol offices after a House vote, dusk last Thursday afternoon found DeLay outside on the Capitol Plaza, waiting at a traffic light to return to his office in the Cannon House Office Building across the street. Just like any other Congressman. --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas and Hillary Hylton/ Austin and Perry Bacon Jr. and Massimo Calabresi/ Washington
...Congressman Charles Rangel of New York, a reasonable man who sometimes goes off the deep end, indulged himself last week. "George Bush is our Bull Connor," he told the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, referring to the legendary Birmingham, Ala., police chief who attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with dogs and water cannons in 1963. A few minutes earlier, the entertainer Harry Belafonte had read the riot act to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...
...Frances Townsend to handle the Administration's internal inquiry into its flawed handling of Hurricane Katrina has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. "Anyone who has basically had responsibilities to respond to this should not be the folks looking at it, in my judgment," Congressman Christopher Shays of Connecticut, a senior Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security, told TIME. Though Townsend is "a tough lady," Shays said, "I don't think she can be objective because, frankly, I would want to know what was she doing in that time, before the storm, during...
...only one-third of its taxes for 2005, it might break even! Few passengers realize that more than 20% of the average $200 ticket is taxes and fees. The government is hooked on those revenues like a junkie and can't seem to get off. Even today, one Florida Congressman is advocating more security fees for airline passengers. With that kind of wrongheaded legislation, it's no wonder Congress bears a huge responsibility for the sorry state of the industry...