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...still has classified intelligence documents from after the attacks. Socialist Party and other officials have called for an inquiry to determine whether Aznar broke the law by retaining the reports. "This is a sign of his authoritarian and self-centered way," says Begoña Lasagabaster, a Basque congresswoman. The bad publicity just kept coming. Cadena Ser, a well-regarded Spanish radio network, reported that in January the Spanish government hired Washington law firm Piper Rudnick to, among other things, help Aznar collect the Congressional Gold Medal. Officials from Aznar's Popular Party say it's common practice for governments...
...there was a widespread problem, Edwards--one of the world's leading authorities on corrosion in home plumbing systems--launched an investigation. He was the right man for the job because leaching of lead into drinking water is one of the major consequences of corroded pipes. Says Washington, D.C., Congresswoman...
...millions of dollars of damage to timber forests every year. In 1999 a squad of bucktoothed renegades in Washington started toppling cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, putting at risk the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. (When the National Park Service relocated the colony to an undisclosed location, then Idaho Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, a die-hard foe of reintroducing the wolf and grizzly in the West, demanded the Tidal Basin be declared "habitat critical to its well-being and survival" and the return of the beavers...
DIED. MARTHA GRIFFITHS, 91, keenly intellectual former U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan, whose persistence led to House and Senate passage of the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment; in Armada, Mich. During her 20-year tenure in Washington (she chose not to run again in 1974), she was responsible for adding "sex" to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, thus banning discrimination based on gender, and became the first woman to serve on the powerful Ways and Means Committee...
...House went off on its own way creating its own plan that shaves down the size of the Bush dividend cut and adds a reduction in capital gains taxes, something the president did not propose. "The Senate is stuck in the mud at $350 billion," said Ohio Congresswoman Deborah Price, who chairs the House Republican Conference. Though the chief tax writer in the House, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, embraced much of the White House plan, some in the administration slammed him as "imperious" and "impossible," for not sticking behind Bush's full elimination of the dividend...