Word: congressmen
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...students said they will use a variety of tactics to bring about their goals. These will include drafting a model letter for law students to send to their home state congressmen, writing to newspapers, encouraging students to sign an online petition against Alito, and contributing to an online blog run by the national Law Students Against Alito organization...
...other Washington legal news, Michael Scanlon-a partner of former uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and onetime aide to former Republican Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay-was indicted on a conspiracy charge. Scanlon is expected to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors investigating possible corruption among lobbyists, congressmen and staffers. A legal team for DeLay, himself under indictment in Texas, may try to subpoena former grand jury members to show the Texas prosecutor mishandled his case against DeLay...
...Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: "The people who want to drill in the Refuge talk about all these fancy tools and technology they can use to get a little oil ten years from now," she said, in a louder, stronger voice than when she delivered the same speech to congressmen in the spring. (Before she spoke, she asked her Mom if addressing a big crowd was a little like cheerleading. They decided it was.) "I have a tool that costs about ninety-nine cents that will save us four million gallons of gas a day, starting today. A tire gauge...
...People like Rangel and Belafonte might do well to listen more closely to the next generation of black leaders-people like Obama and Congressmen Harold Ford of Tennessee, Artur Davis of Alabama and Sanford Bishop of Georgia-who emphasize both the need for more money to fight poverty and the need to change the behavior patterns of the poor. "Our priority has to be with whatever works, as opposed to the conventional wisdom within our group or our party," Obama said last week, adding that liberal and conservative solutions to poverty are not mutually exclusive. "It's not either/or...
...Mart also inserted itself into political races, to the unions' great irritation. The company donated money to the campaigns of black Congressmen Harold Ford, Charles Rangel and Albert Wynn. And after Wal-Mart gave a lunch for a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a small brouhaha between labor and the black caucus erupted. The Service Employees International Union fired off a letter accusing the Representatives of betraying labor. The head of the caucus, Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of North Carolina, bristled at the criticism. "I'm not defending them--I think a lot of their practices are abysmal...