Word: delayer
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...contracts, but the 10-term Congressman wasn't mad at just them. "It's a woman who runs an organization called CREW," he complained to a blogger for the Daily Pennsylvanian. That woman is a tenacious 40-year-old former prosecutor named Melanie Sloan, whose targets have included Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. She is executive director of the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Since its founding in 2003, CREW has worked through legal and regulatory channels to press allegations of impropriety almost exclusively against Republicans. Ironically, given CREW's new prominence...
...York's Charles Schumer, was working as an assistant U.S. Attorney when two Democratic activists approached her with the idea of trying something like Judicial Watch from the left. For its first 18 months, CREW was a one-woman shop. An early target was the seemingly invincible DeLay. Sloan asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the House majority leader's fund raising and sued the Federal Election Commission to get more info about his dealings with a Kansas utility. But she was not getting much support from Democratic officials, particularly in the House, where the two parties had declared...
Until, that is, DeLay redistricted Texas Congress- man Chris Bell--now the Democratic nominee for Texas Governor--out of a job. In Bell, Sloan finally had the in-house ally she needed, and under House rules formally filed a CREW-drafted com-plaint in June 2004. Eventually, the Ethics Committee unanimously admonished the majority leader--an early sign of the troubles that led to DeLay's resignation and an achieve- ment Sloan counts as "the thing I'm most proud...
After her $750,000 grant was jeopardized by a delay in the government’s approval of her green card, a breast cancer researcher at Harvard last week passed through the security clearance stage, bringing her a step closer toward continuing her work funded by the National Institutes of Health...
...DeLay's Gift to the Democrats The controversial former House leader thought he could help the G.O.P. by getting out of this year's race. But his departure has thrown his home district into election chaos -- and very likely into the Democrats' hands