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...around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...saturation coverage of the disappearance of Chandra Levy. While authorities seem no closer to finding out what happened to the 24-year-old intern, we seem to have learned a lot about the secret life of a preacher's kid from Oklahoma who grew up to be a California Congressman. He once campaigned under the slogan "Setting a Good Example." It was a dangerous boast for any public official to make, practically a dare to be proved wrong...
Simple enough? Not quite. This week the House takes up campaign-finance reform, and passing it has got a lot more complicated. "I wouldn't say we have the votes yet," admits Democratic Representative Martin Meehan, who's sponsoring the House version with Republican Congressman Christopher Shays...
...Saturday declared that Condit had never been considered a suspect in her disappearance and was not one now; they also praised him for his cooperation. During the two previous interviews, FBI sources say, Condit was treated with kid gloves, even after agents learned that Levy had called the California Congressman five times from her cell phone in the two days before she vanished. Investigators have also determined that her running shoes were in her apartment, making it less likely she was attacked or killed while jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park. So where...
...precautions Condit is said to have taken, and despite the wholesome image he projected at home in Modesto, the Congressman's behavior has always been the subject of gossip among his legislative colleagues - first at the state capital, Sacramento, and later in Washington. "A flamboyant party boy who uses his prestige as an assemblyman to fuel a busy social life," California Journal had written in 1988. The pattern continued when he reached Congress. "His looks and clothes are so important to him," says a friend. "He so desperately wants to stay young...