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...turf belongs not just to the shifting bureaucracies themselves but also to their employee unions, the lobbyists who do business with them and their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake...
...October got word that Democrats had just elected Nancy Pelosi as minority whip, they broke into applause. They weren't cheering because the California Representative had made history by becoming the first woman to win a top leadership post in the House. Many of the Republicans, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, considered the San Francisco Congresswoman a lightweight whose liberal voting record would help them paint the Democrats as out of synch with moderate voters...
...accounting gimmicks. Few Americans knew about the hidden expiration date, and even fewer cared about it. But now that the booby-trapped tax bill has been signed into law, congressional Democrats have to accept the permanent cuts, or else be accused of raising taxes in 2011. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has accused the Democrats of supporting a “now you see it, now you don’t” tax code, and Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo.) has taken to calling the 2011 expiration the “largest tax increase” in American...
...half joking. "We're hardly ever around here to do much." Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has even begun complaining publicly about how difficult it is to get anything done simply because his senators are hardly ever around to vote. To get legislation passed, Daschle and House Speaker Dennis Hastert often have to pull all-nighters Wednesday keeping their chambers in session non-stop through Thursday...
...shocked at how many bills that spend billions of your tax dollars get approved by groggy members after midnight. It's not the best way to legislate. But Daschle and Hastert would be tarred and feathered by both Republicans and Democrats if they had their chambers working a five-day week...