Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DELAYING MR. DELAY...
...After weeks where his press conferences were standing-room only events with reporters firing sharp questions about his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, things have become much quieter for Tom DeLay. On Tuesday, with many empty chairs in the conference room on the first floor of the Capitol where he holds his weekly press availabilities, DeLay focused on laying out the House's Republican leadership's agenda for the week and received only one question about his ethics troubles. The Majority Leader even brought up the issue first. Asked by a reporter about the G8 conference next month in Scotland...
...DeLay's trips remain a subject of some controversy. The Texas congressman has maintained that rather than face continued questions in the press, he wants to make his case to the House Ethics Committee, which is in charge of investigating if members violate House rules. That committee didn't meet for several months this year because Democrats were protesting GOP changes to its rules. Republicans reversed those rule changes, but now the committee is fighting over how its staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position...
Professor John Idoko, chair of infectious diseases at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Nigeria and head of one of SPH’s Nigerian clinics, criticized the University for the delay...
...delay also meant that in-country partners in Nigeria—including doctors, nurses, counselors, and community health workers—went without pay from Harvard for five months, according to Idoko...