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Nowhere but on Capitol Hill could a 69-year-old politician serving his 17th term be considered a Young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "the Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power sortie that happens only once every few decades in Congress - and put himself in a position where he will help determine the fate of much of Barack Obama's domestic agenda...
...took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo! had helped send to jail...What a disgrace." - Former California Congressman Tom Lantos, after Yang appeared before a Congressional committee to discuss why Yahoo! had turned over details of two Chinese journalists' Internet activity to Chinese authorities (San Francisco Chronicle...
...have formed the intent to commit suicide. Second, Jim Jones had isolated his people and conditioned them through suicide rehearsals and mock sieges to accept death. Third, he orchestrated the events on that final day so that the outcome was never in doubt. He had gunmen go shoot the Congressman. Then he turned around to his followers, once he got news the Congressman was dead, and announced it. He said, now some among us have done something that's going to cause the army to come in here and nobody will be safe. Let's bring forward the potion...
...gathering of powerful economic leaders this weekend, one individual with Harvard roots stood in the place of another. Former Institute of Politics Director and Republican congressman Jim Leach represented President-elect Barack Obama at the Group of 20, or G-20, meeting held at the White House this past weekend to discuss the current worldwide financial crisis. Obama was invited by the White House to attend the summit but declined the opportunity to meet with the world leaders who comprise the international body that focuses on economic issues, opting to send Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright...
...inspirations for this clause, as both scandals severely muddled the respective Presidents' transition plans. Nevertheless, the verdict on this question is mixed. "I don't want somebody disqualified who can help solve the economic problem because they didn't pay the dog-sitter's Social Security," argued former Congressman John Kasich in a Nov. 14 interview with Fox News...