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Four years ago, California Congressman David Dreier argued on the House floor that states should not have to pay to educate illegal-immigrant kids in public schools. "We are trying to decrease the magnet which draws people illegally into this country," said Dreier, a Republican then known as an immigration hard-liner. Now, however, Dreier is just as emphatically championing his bill to bring more foreigners into the U.S. to do high-tech jobs. "Without these professionals, the prosperity we are enjoying today will be threatened," he says...
Already the 74-year-old widower has aced one test that no one expected him to face: the online magazine Salon reported three weeks ago that Hyde had an extramarital affair 30 years ago. That revelation "hurt him tremendously," says Congressman David Dreier of California, Hyde's friend and sometime movie companion. What Hyde felt was not so much personal embarrassment, say friends, as insult to his four children and his wife of 45 years, whom he still mourns since her death six years ago. Yet Hyde admitted the affair with a speed and self-effacement that set the standard...
...DAVID DREIER (R) District 28 (Northeastern Los Angeles suburbs...
...this seat since 1980, Dreier has been a guiding but moderating voice in the Republican revolution. He fought to streamline Congress as co-vice chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and has burnished his reputation as a red-tape hawk by overhauling the House committee system for Newt Gingrich--something that had not been done in 50 years...
Levering has no illusions about his chances against David Dreier, an eight-term incumbent with a multimillion-dollar war chest. But the retired history professor believes that Dreier's reputation as a moderate is overblown, and hopes Dreier's votes to cut social programs like food stamps and school lunches will mark him as a "Team Gingrich" member who should not be playing in Washington...