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...this case--helping to arrange a center-sponsored trip. "The center believed then and the center believes now the trip was entirely appropriate, as I'm sure does Tom DeLay," says a source close to the center, which would not comment on the record. DeLay's office maintains the Congressman did important work on the trip, the highlight of which was a meeting with conservative icon Margaret Thatcher. The long-retired British Prime Minister regaled DeLay with an account of her efforts to end the cold war more than a decade earlier. As for Abramoff, a spokesman contends...
...this attention on Abramoff--whom DeLay once called "one of my closest and dearest friends"--is just about the last thing the Texas Congressman, who is now the House majority leader, needs at this moment. DeLay's trip to Britain is one of three overseas jaunts that questions have been raised about. Other reports have disclosed that his wife and daughter have been paid roughly $500,000 since 2001 by DeLay's political organization. At a moment when House Republicans thought they would be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their triumphant return to power on vows to clean...
...easy for DeLay's allies to dismiss signs of erosion in his support early last week when they were largely confined to criticism by moderate Republican Congressman Chris Shays, often a voice of dissent within the ranks. But it was more difficult after 10 former Congressmen, all Republicans, signed a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert imploring him to reverse recent revisions in the House rules that were apparently designed to shield DeLay from being investigated by the ethics committee. What's more, conservative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, while professing his confidence in DeLay's innocence, told his hometown paper...
DIED. Leslie C. Arends, 89, staunchly conservative Republican Congressman from the farm country of central Illinois for 40 years, the past 31 (1943-74) as whip, or deputy party leader, of the G.O.P.; in Naples, Fla. Arends was an unsung but consummate parliamentary tactician who could be counted on to hold Republican Representatives in line with his enthusiastic party loyalty tempered by good humor and unblustering honesty...
...George Washington University. Federal allocations for AIDS research have risen steadily from $5.5 million in 1982 to $106.5 million this year, but much of the money has come at the expense of other health programs and much of the initiative has come from Congress, not the Administration. Says Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who has been leading a drive for more generous support: "The amount being spent on AIDS is a drop in the bucket compared with what we need for this emergency...