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...With the Democrats declaring this year's mid-term elections a referendum on Republican corruption, you would have expected a full-scale Republican counterattack against Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson after the FBI raided his offices Saturday night. But instead, the latest developments in the unfolding Jefferson saga have brought the two parties together for once, with both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress agreeing on one thing: FBI raids on their offices are bad and dangerous things...
...lawmakers from both parties in the House and Senate argued the raids on Jefferson's offices are a potential violation of separation of powers clauses in the Constitution. The top Democrat in the House, Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, said soberly, "Justice Department investigations must be conducted in accordance with Constitutional protections and historical precedent so that our government's system of checks and balances are not undermined." Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert was not so restrained. He called the raid "deeply troubling," and said all legislative documents should be privileged against such searches to "prevent overreaching and abuse of power...
...Jefferson may be as surprised as anyone to see Hastert and other Republicans fighting on his side. The Democrat, who represents much of New Orleans, is in serious legal trouble by all accounts, and the allegations released last weekend after the raid are lurid. The FBI charges he authorized bribes of Nigerian officials to drum up business for a Kentucky telecom company, iGate, and that on July 30, 2005, he took $100,000 in cash out of the trunk of a collaborator's car in Pentagon City, and then stored the cash in a refrigerator in his home in plastic...
...Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down over allegations of misuse of earmarks and misreporting on his financial disclosures, and the Justice Department is reportedly reviewing a complaint against him. The Republican head of the House Appropriations Committee, Jerry Lewis, is reportedly under investigation for potential misuse of earmarks. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, on trial for illegal campaign fund transfers, is also under investigation for dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former staffers. The former Chairman of the House Administration Committee, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, has been fingered by four people...
...look into No Child Left Behind. At the start of the hearing, House Education Committee Chairman Howard McKeon, a Republican from California, said "the impact of No Child Left Behind has been dramatic, and a positive step forward for students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers." The committee's top Democrat, George Miller, was scarcely less enthusiastic: "No Child Left Behind is making a difference," he said...