Word: hastert
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...those around him that Armey hasn't been having much fun. The conservative Republican was beaten down and marginalized in his behind-the-scenes power struggle with majority whip (and fellow Texan) Tom DeLay, and has been edged aside in the day-to-day House operation by Speaker Denny Hastert, who is more engaged than predecessor Newt Gingrich...
DeLay is almost sure to get Armey's job. But his effort to consolidate his power in the House may run into resistance. DeLay, who engineered the ascension of his deputy Hastert to Speaker in 1998, wants his current deputy, Roy Blunt of Missouri, to succeed him as whip. Some House Republicans are balking at giving the hard-line DeLay so large a power base. At least seven other Republicans are considering a run for the No. 3 spot. "People really like Blunt," says a key G.O.P. strategist, "but this isn't about...
...difference of opinion over health care worth scuttling a bill worth $216 billion in economic stimulus over three years' (Don't ask how it got that big or that long, but that's what currently on the table.) Is it worth it to Daschle and Dennis Hastert and Bush to stick to their guns and slink out of town "not having done the people's business...
...Wednesday morning, as President Bush was preparing to leave town for the Asian economic summit, he had breakfast with Lott, Daschle, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The five men have got chummier these past weeks. They had conspired to isolate the hotheads and slowpokes in both parties and move legislation for the war on terrorism with what for Washington was record speed. Daschle recounted what he had learned, including the possibility of spores spreading through the mail system to the House side of the Capitol, three blocks away. The men discussed the merits of shutting...
...Later that morning, when Hastert told his fellow Republican members of the evacuation plan, the room erupted. There was no evidence the House was in danger, the Representatives complained. "There were a lot of unhappy members who thought we were giving in to the terrorists," said a source in the room. And over on the Senate side, events were moving in the opposite direction. The earlier reports of weapons-grade anthrax were evaporating. It was more a "garden variety" brand, Major General John Parker, the commanding general of the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, told...