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...Paul Texas Congressman and 2008 Republican presidential candidate...
...hidden from view inside the state office building in downtown Chicago. The few allies he had left have vanished. And anyone who might have been among the unnamed Senate candidates in the detailed charges against Blagojevich have been busy putting distance between the governor and themselves. Among those were Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who has hired a lawyer to accompany him to a meeting with federal prosecutors on Friday. (See TIME's top 10 scandals...
...Daschle lost his Senate seat when he was beaten by John Thune, a Republican congressman...
...first elected office at age 30, becoming a congressman from South Dakota. During the campaign, Daschle and his first wife, Laurie, reportedly visited 40,000 homes. Daschle won by just 110 votes, and only after a recount. In 1982, running for reelection, Daschle beat out Clint Roberts, a former Marlboro ad model who had also served as a congressman...
...companies could soon be eligible for billions of dollars more. A bill was proposed in the House of Representatives in late November by Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, that would extend the tax-carryback rule to five years, which means companies could get their tax payments refunded all the way back to 2003. And the rule would be eligible for losses that occurred in 2008 or 2009. That means a company with a large enough loss, after the proposed rebate, could effectively not pay taxes for seven years. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, has proposed...