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...Embassy's commercial officer in Tehran, Kalp was accused by the kidnappers of being a CIA officer, beaten for three attempted escapes and spent more than a year in solitary confinement before his release on President Ronald Reagan's inauguration day. CONVICTED. JAMES TRAFICANT, 60, nine-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio, on 10 federal charges including bribery, fraud and racketeering; in Cleveland. Traficant may be expelled from the House of Representatives and faces up to 63 years in prison for taking bribes and kickbacks and filing false tax returns. EXTRADITION ORDERED.Of JURGEN HARKSEN, billionaire South African resident wanted...
...worked a little harder to stroke Congress. Ted Stevens, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Democratic chairman Robert Byrd in an angry letter to Bush two weeks ago over Bush's refusal to allow Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge to testify before Congress. Republican Congressman Ernest Istook, who chairs the House subcommittee that controls the Office of Homeland Security's budget, hinted that he might hold up funds unless Ridge comes forth. (After all that, the White House began talking about a compromise.) And some Republicans grumble that by refusing to release information to Congress about Vice...
Fred Grandy Former Republican Congressman from Iowa
...notion that government can be a positive force in people's lives. Whether the show is actually inspiring individuals to enter public service, I don't know. But every now and again I'll see something in a scene that reminds me why I wanted be a United States Congressman and not just play...
...torn apart. An angry President Bush ordered an investigation when he read about the incident. Furious members of Congress are pushing legislation to gut the INS, a bureaucracy that never had many friends in Washington and is now totally alienated. "We've all been dumbfounded by these revelations," fumed Congressman James Sensenbrenner Jr., who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. "This fiasco is indicative of the enormous mismanagement...