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...news for Burton-bashers: The pit bull's still with us. A bid to oust the outspoken Indiana Republican failed Wednesday when Burton used his power as chairman of the House committee on governmental reform and oversight to quash ranking Democrat Henry Waxman's motion. And despite Waxman's vow to take it to the floor of the House, it looks as if Burton has finally weathered the storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom...
...hasty, more designed to close the case than get to the bottom of it. Some of the mystery might be dispelled if the government were simply to open its files on the assassination. These include the evidence examined by a congressional subcommittee headed by Louis Stokes, a black Democrat from Cleveland, which concluded that Ray was the murderer and that if he had help, it came from violent white supremacists, not government agencies. That is the scenario we ought to be looking at, not William Pepper's nonsense...
...officials have organized a 200-member coalition to draft the state's own protection plan, which may include finding the mice and relocating some of them into sanctuaries. "It's in the interest of both mouse and man to avoid drastic measures," says Congressman David Skaggs of Boulder, a Democrat who secured a $400,000 appropriation to fund the project. "Nobody wants an endangered-species train wreck in the areas where Colorado's population is growing the most rapidly...
...Burton, the evil of opening this particular Pandora's Box won't be ended by letting all the contents out. Hubbell and his attorney are upset that every minute of his private conversations -- genuinely personal moments included -- are about to enter the public domain. The ranking Democrat on Burton's committee, Henry Waxman, called for an inquiry into why his chairman "unilaterally subpoenaed these tapes, unilaterally released them and apparently unilaterally altered the content." Moral: Leaking snippets of tape can create a tangled web, as the Clintons already know...
Another charmer, Bob Mulholland, a California Democrat, crawled out from under his rock long enough to declare that he planned to indecently expose the Republicans who sought to indecently expose the President. The White House hit him with a stick, and he slunk back to obscurity...