Word: gop
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...Tuesday and Wednesday, President Bush personally met with about one quarter of the U.S. Senate. There was a bipartisan discussion with five Democrats and five Republicans about Iraq on Tuesday morning, followed by another large bipartisan session on immigration. The next day, Bush invited a group of about nine GOP senators, mostly chairmen of key committees, to another meeting in which he listened to their concerns on a wide range of issues. "I think it's a major outreach program," said Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine...
...This was a rare point of agreement for the two parties, which have been wrangling over an immigration bill in an atmosphere of mistrust. Democrats remain worried that the GOP is trying to sabotage a compromise in order to provide a campaign issue and portray the opposition as intransigent, as they did to great effect with homeland security in 2002. A Democratic Senate aide said that Democrats on Capitol Hill "are concerned that this will stir up the right-wing opponents and kook fringe while accomplishing very little," creating "a side issue" that distracts from the goal of getting...
...little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America’s embassy to its closest ally leaderless for a year. He was succeeded in 2004 by Robert Holmes Tuttle, owner of the Beverly Hills based Tuttle-Click Automotive Group, and contributor of $198,725 to GOP causes over the last presidential term. Like Oberwetter, neither Farish nor Tuttle had previous diplomatic experience...
...honor of hosting a former Bush ‘super ranger’—someone who raised more than $300,000 for the 2004 campaign. In all, Bush’s first 35 political appointees to the diplomatic corps gave an average of $141,110 to GOP campaigns between...
...that happens, the GOP has a ready-made answer, and his name is Alan Mollohan. ?Everytime they bring [ethics] up they're going to face it,? says Winston. So even if you didn't catch his name the first time around, you're likely to hear the story of Alan Mollohan's dismal exit from the House ethics committee many more times in the coming months...