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...will come to an end as Bush pushes Congress to consider his plan for Social Security. Without a clear alternative to the president’s proposal—which the Democrats have yet to provide—our worst fear is that some well-meaning but badly misinformed Congressmen might support the Bush-backed bill, and thus slowly destroy Social Security as we know...
...October 2003, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent Ford President Susan V. Berresford a letter co-signed by 20 other congressmen urging her to ensure that Ford money was not supporting anti-Semitic activities. In a November 2003 meeting, Berresford promised Nadler that Ford would not fund anti-Semitic groups...
When no detailed explanation was given for the delays, faculty at the Rockefeller Center sent letters to four congressmen to ask for assistance...
...five extra seats from his home state of Texas in the congressional elections: a rule change so he won't automatically have to step aside as majority leader if an Austin grand jury indicts him in a campaign-finance probe. But despite a public show of solidarity, Republican Congressmen tell TIME there was a bitter debate behind closed doors over whether to change the rule for the man known as "the Hammer," and it has left some Republicans angry and concerned that their party looks arrogant. During a private caucus last Wednesday, more than 200 G.O.P. lawmakers argued for four...
...troubles of the opposition's leaders. "Now we're starting to act like the very people we defeated," Shays told TIME afterward. Even some of DeLay's ideological soulmates were outraged. Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth wouldn't comment to TIME on what he said in the caucus. But other Congressmen who were there say the conservative gave an impassioned speech, warning his colleagues that the backlash from the rule change could "jeopardize the very majority [DeLay] has worked so hard to build." --By Douglas Waller