Word: delayer
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...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
...Washington. Watchdog groups have called for a House ethics committee investigation of whether there was any connection between Ney's actions and the fundraiser. Ney says he was "duped" by Abramoff and his associate, public relations operative Michael Scanlon, a former staffer to Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay...
...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...
INDICTED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 40, a top Republican lobbyist enmeshed in ethics investigations of his close friend, House majority leader Tom DeLay; on unrelated charges of defrauding lenders in the $147.5 million purchase of a casino cruise line in Florida five years ago; in Fort Lauderdale...
...Gaza, where settlers grow everything from celery to exotic flowers. The U.S., in turn, would compensate Israel for the agricultural facilities, which bring in $150 million in earnings and employ some 4,000 people. But the plan is unraveling, thanks to the greed of Palestinian bigwigs. As they delay final approval of the deal, and with it Israeli compensation from the U.S., settlers have begun dismantling greenhouses rather than leaving freebies for the Palestinians...