Word: repping
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Though similar bills have passed both the House and Senate before, they have not done so in the same legislative session. Now, with this newfound coalition in the House and with a Democratic majority in the Senate, Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) finally have their chance to push this legislation through Congress. As they do, they should resist as many amendments as possible to stay true to the McCain-Feingold bill—the Senate version—and thereby protect it from entering a conference committee, where it may never again...
...members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee—Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rep. Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.), who is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations—said Winokur may “hinder” Congressional investigations into Enron’s demise...
...show up just long enough to take the Fifth. Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino is due today to talk about how much he didn't know. And so just as the cluster of Enron probes took a sharp turn over the weekend toward sending people "to the pokey," as Rep. Billy Tauzin put it Sunday, lawmakers are finding themselves either with no guests at all - the Senate Commerce committee simply canceled Monday's episode - or even worse: with guests that nobody particularly to watch...
...what they should and shouldn't do. And for all Pitt's genially droning delivery, and all the time he spent dodging grandstanders digging for pungent quotes on Bush's budget priorities, at least the general theme of the exchange was figuring out - and fixing - the real problem. As Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., put it: "What shocked me was how close Enron came to being completely legal...
...Congressional interest in those documents increased last week when House Democrats discovered what they think may be a subtle but significant last-minute change in Bush's energy policy, made before it was submitted to Congress. According to Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, language was added to the final energy plan that was designed to help Enron with a financially troubled power-plant project in India. Waxman obtained a copy of an earlier draft of the plan, dated March 30 and written by an interagency group. That version, sent to Cheney, included no reference to India's energy output...