Word: gop
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...form of widening justice probes into their behavior. Wade, former CEO of defense contractor MZM, pleaded guilty to bribing Cunningham and told investigators about how he reimbursed employees who gave to the campaigns of influential representatives. Records released in the Wade plea suggest the House Members are GOP Reps. Katherine Harris of Florida and Virgil Goode of Virginia. Harris released a statement Friday calling the revelations in the Wade plea ?an unfortunate reality.... I am confident justice will prevail and the guilty parties will be properly punished." Harris said she had attempted to refund the donations after press accounts first...
...body that likes to think it can police itself, some wonder if prosecutors are overreaching. The Justice Department has ?every right to investigate when a law is being broken,? says a senior House GOP aide, ?However, there is a feeling that they may be crossing boundaries into where the ethics committee should be performing. And it's just another reason why the ethics committee needs to get up and running...
Moving toward a deal that could allow President Bush and congressional GOP leaders to save face and avert a prolonged confrontation, GOP officials said today that they were discussing the idea of having Dubai Ports World seek a new review of its acquisition of a British company's operation that runs several key U.S. ports...
...years after the Bush team, which included Mehlman, all but trashed McCain in the ugly 2000 Republican primaries, Mehlman's move was another signal that the party's allergy to McCain is lifting as the senator continues to garner positive looks from the GOP's key base of financial fundraisers. Roughly a dozen top fundraisers attending a closed RNC meeting this week in Naples, Florida, privately promised McCain, who delivered a speech to the group, that they would be with him if and when...
...went to high-profile Appropriations Democrats-such as $1,000 each to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; House panel members Patrick Kennedy and John Murtha, who would later lambast President Bush over the Iraq war; and Senator Diane Feinstein-along with the many more thousands he showered on GOP members. "This ethically challenged behavior should speak volumes about the need for earmark reform," says Naomi Steiner of Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group...