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...question of whether Bush got preferential treatment as the son of a Texas Congressman and later the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Ben Barnes, a former speaker of the Texas House, has long been on record saying he did. After years of denying he had done anything special for Bush, he reluctantly said in a 1999 deposition that he had pushed to get Bush into the Guard at the request of a friend of the Bush family. Recently, Barnes, who has become a fund raiser for Kerry, has again spoken out about the matter, acknowledging at a Texas rally...
...support behind the 9/11 commission's proposal to empower a new intelligence chief to oversee most of the nation's intelligence operations, attention this week will focus on the man who has been nominated for the job it would supersede: director of the CIA. Yet Porter Goss, the Florida Congressman nominated by President Bush last month after the resignation of George Tenet, may well be auditioning for the bigger job too. Many Republicans and intelligence hands believe Bush is likely to promote Goss to the new post of national intelligence director if it is created. Indeed, that...
Senate Democrats, many of whom initially opposed the Republican Congressman's nomination, don't expect to go in for the kill during this week's hearings, as they see little chance of derailing Goss's candidacy. But they plan to question him on such matters as what reforms he feels the CIA needs and whether his experience as a former CIA officer and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee equips him to manage the $40 billion intelligence community. They are also likely to ask him about a controversial reform bill that Goss floated in June that would have allowed...
...Former Congressman Philip R. Sharp, D-Ind., has returned to serve another term, but this time it is not in the United States Congress...
State Representative Robert W. Churchill said that he had not been present for Harold’s speech but had heard her as the emcee of a Prayer Breakfast, which White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and former Congressman J.C. Watts also attended...