Word: dickerson
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...floor. The result was predictable but instructive: Moderate Republicans are through toeing the party line. The impeachment hawks are now on the record. And the Senate looks to be 37 votes short of a presidential eviction. "The GOP moderates had had enough of witnesses," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. And possibly enough of conviction as well...
...business lawsuit. The question is whether DeLay correctly indicated how long he served as chairman of Albo Pest Control. DeLay maintains the allegations against him are nothing more than unsubstantiated dirt by his political enemies. "But if it turns out that he lied," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "he's got a political problem...
...difficult to see why a deposition goof would be hugely embarrassing for DeLay and the Republican party. "No Republican leader has sought the President's ouster more fervently than DeLay," says Dickerson. Democrats would like nothing better than to see DeLay fall on his own impeachment sword. That sword, however, has been handed over to the Senate and the House has moved on. "As a result," says Dickerson, "it's unlikely that DeLay's deposition problem, if substantiated, would force him to step down. It is more likely to go down into the growing folder of impeachment hypocrisies...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...raising the impeachment scandal, members of the GOP mostly confined their gripes to White House policy -- which is just what Clinton wanted. "The President is trying to set up the same trap as last year, which is to put the Republicans against Social Security," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Though Dick Armey attacked the proposed budget -- "a $4 trillion surplus, and not a penny for tax cuts?" -- Wednesday morning, Dickerson says, Republicans were toning down the rhetoric, going out of their way to appear supportive of the office...