Word: congressmen
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...from the AEI on Iraq, a number of influential Democrats have lent their weight to similar initiatives on Iran, out of concern for Israel. On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democratic presidential hopeful and advocate for withdrawing most U.S. forces from Iraq within a year, joined with Democratic Congressmen Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tom Lantos of California to propose legislation that would encourage individual and institutional investors, such as state pension funds, to dump stock implicated in trade with Iran...
...when popular Governor John Lynch indicated that he would not pursue the Senate seat. Once a solidly Republican state, New Hampshire has been trending Democratic in recent years. In 2004, Lynch knocked off an incumbent Republican governor. And last year, when Lynch was reelected, Democratic challengers beat incumbent congressmen in both of the state’s congressional districts, winning back control of the state senate. Harvard Republican Club President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 expressed his support for Sununu. “He is very much an independent thinker, which is much in line with New Hampshire?...
...Latin America, for example, should smack Bush squarely in the face when he visits U.S. allies Colombia and Guatemala this weekend. Scandals there - one involving Colombian senators allegedly in league with drug-trafficking paramilitary armies, and another implicating Guatemala's national police in the murder of three Salvadoran congressmen - are another harsh reminder that, despite what so many in Washington seem to think, elections alone don't constitute a democratic society...
...Saca, too, may be in hot water if it is determined that the three dead congressmen were themselves involved in drug trafficking. The murdered politicians, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez, belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA. All were members of the regional parliament, which has 132 members representing five of the seven Central American nations. Based in Guatemala City, the parliament, known by its Spanish acronym PARLACEN, has been mired in drug-trafficking scandals in recent years. In 2003 a Honduran member of the body was convicted of trafficking...
...interior minister of El Salvador, Rene Figueroa, who is collaborating on the Guatemalan investigation, is the vice president of the ARENA party and a personal friend of the murdered congressmen. He said at a press conference that his goal was to clear the name of the politicians. But such close connections have raised questions about the objectivity of any investigation that either government will be able to carry...