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...running things? Nobody, as far as I can tell," he told TIME's Brian Bennett. Early Monday morning, Tarchick had told FEMA and Northcom that he and his men were ready to go. But he wasn't ordered to deploy until Tuesday afternoon--an "unacceptable" delay, he says. In 72 hours, his men rescued some 400 people. He wonders how many more they might have saved...
...demonstrated before visiting members of a commission reviewing Rumsfeld's recommendation to do away with the facility. Faced with the shuttering of his state's second largest employer, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota Senator John Thune wants to attach an amendment to this year's defense bill to delay all base closings...
...second deadline bore down on Iraqi politicians trying to hammer out a constitution, Sunni members of the drafting committee called for another delay in presenting the charter. Fundamental issues-such as the role of Islam and the question of federalism-remained unresolved Monday evening. Nonetheless, by 8:30 p.m. in Baghdad Shi'ite legislators were saying a draft was ready. As news of the possible draft trickled out, Shi'ites celebrated in the streets of Najaf and Sunni negotiators held grim press conferences. At 11:40 p.m., the drafters sent a document to parliament that with the issue of federalism...
...White House has yet to indicate a preference, but a number of Republican Congressmen have told the Administration that stronger enforcement is their top priority. House majority leader Tom DeLay says President Bush has admitted recently in private talks that he made a mistake in how he approached the issue at the start of the year and that he will focus more on the problem of illegal crossings, even as he pushes for a guest-worker program. "The message," says Cornyn, "has been gotten." --By Terry McCarthy. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nancy Harbert
...Then there's DeLay, Two associates who did work for DeLay's political action committee have been indicted for money laundering and accepting illegal contributions in a Texas investigation that is continuing. And while there isn't yet a House ethics committee investigation of DeLay's acceptance of a trip to Scotland allegedly financed by Abramoff and as well as other interactions between the two, legal sources say that Abramoff's alter ego Scanlon is cooperating to at least some degree with prosecutors in a separate, Washington-based federal probe of the lobbyist's dealings with Indian tribes and with...