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...What's different is that GOP lawmakers are now starting to hear about Delay when they go back home to their districts. An article in his state's largest newspaper took note of House Majority Whip Roy Blunt's strong defense of the man who stands one rung above him in the House leadership. BLUNT MUST WALK FINE LINE ON DELAY, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared two weekends ago. MISSOURI CONGRESSMAN COULD FACE SCRUTINY. The DeLay saga is playing in Peoria, judging from the questions that Illinois Republican Ray LaHood is suddenly getting there. And Indiana's Mark Souder...
...DeLay's own district, Republicans are so alarmed they are already mobilizing to defend him in an election that is still nearly a year and half away. Says Jared Woodfill, GOP chairman in nearby Harris county: "We're getting e-mails and calls from the base, the precinct chairs and the phone bank people saying what can we do to help now? Usually that doesn't happen until six months before an election...
...where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden that Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the ethics committee, was still reading the resolution as he went to the House Rules Committee to testify in favor of it. It passed the House...
...questions that now surround DeLay, the most explosive concern his office's close relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is the subject of several investigations centered on his dealings with his Indian tribe clients and the management of tax-exempt charities he set up. Abramoff may have funded, at least indirectly, some of DeLay's most controversial overseas travel. Two weeks ago, TIME reported that when DeLay traveled to Britain in 2000, on a trip ostensibly arranged and paid for by a non-profit organization, his congressional staff turned to Abramoff to arrange the trip, and made extensive demands...
...DeLay says he had no way of knowing Abramoff's role in setting up the Britain trip and adds he welcomes a chance to tell his side of the story before the ethics committee. He is tired to being tried in the media, the Majority Leader told his GOP colleagues at the private session last week. "I want to have the opportunity to clear my name...