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...Rep. John E. McDonough (D-Jamaica Plain), the chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Election Laws--which first approved the bill allowing Connolly to provide the paper summaries--said he had not anticipated the constitutional challenge...
...must seem to our representatives, many of whom are willing to do virtually anything to win re-election. This past election presented one notable exception: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-Penn.), whose recent election loss seems to stem from her exercise of the one characteristic politicians are accused of lacking: integrity...
...made a habit of climbing from office to office in his trek up the ladder to political nirvana, running virtually every year for the past 15. His favorite tactics are somewhat unorthodox: he joked during the primary about wanting to mud wrestle with his Republican opponent, State Rep. Ellen Harley...
...Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who was re-elected Wednesday...
...after its Senate counterpart delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably passive" during...