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Shortly before Representative Tom DeLay announced he would leave Congress by summer, half a dozen advisers were on a conference call debating how to unveil their stunning secret. Suddenly, DeLay's Texas twang silenced the chatter. "Anybody wanna hear what I wanna do?" he asked mischievously...
Befitting a tactician and power broker who once ran the Capitol with equal parts guile and muscle, DeLay did it his way as he prepared to leave public life. He shunned the weepy contrition deployed by disgraced predecessors over the years and instead went out pummeling. He threatened to make one of his last acts an ethics complaint against Representative Cynthia McKinney, who later apologized for striking a Capitol Police officer. He said conservatives needed a new leader. He accused Democrats of "criminalizing politics." He said lobbying reform would be a sop to "the left." Although he has been indicted...
...group of about 150 professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting passed the measure on a nearly unanimous voice vote after more than an hour of sometimes chaotic debate. They ran out of time before being able to consider the second proposal on the meeting docket, which would delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year. [On Thursday, Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian said that 175 voting Faculty members attended Tuesday's meeting, along with 28 non-voting members and guests.] Many details of the legislation approved yesterday still need to be ironed out, such...
...Sometimes, the message is more obvious. The President didn't exactly get all weepy when Rep. Tom DeLay, a fellow Texan and former House majority leader who once got red carpet treatment, announced he was leaving Congress. Bush appreciated and even depended on DeLay's ability to get things done, but some of his former aides and associates are central players in the lobbying corruption scandal that has become a headache for all Republicans...
...Meanwhile, Republicans were looking in disarray - even before the announcement this week that Tom DeLay would give up his House seat. Some House Republicans were quietly rasing concerns after Majority Leader John Boehner questioned the value of a 700-mile fence for the U.S.-Mexico border that was part of an immigration bill passed by the House in December, while Senate Republicans questioned if their leader, Bill Frist, was allowing his presidential ambitions to get in the way of passing immigration legislation. And as the Senate moved forward with a lenient immigration reform plan, a group of almost two dozen...