Word: repping
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...Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's). Those opposed, including many on the right, regard it as the destruction of early human life. Others see it as a potential gateway to human cloning. Still, polls suggest that more than half of Americans support such research, a fact that Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, says makes the President's intransigence on the issue even more exasperating...
...Rep. William Jefferson, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School who became infamous when the FBI found $90,000 in his home freezer in August 2005, was charged with 16 corruption-related felonies in Virginia on Monday. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, is accused of seeking millions of dollars in bribes from companies doing business in the United States and Africa. The 94-page indictment—which charges Jefferson with bribery, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, among other things—said that he used his position as a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee...
...symbol of Congress' gross ineptitude. The center's construction will cost at least $600 million and is at least three years behind schedule. It is now supposed to be finished by September 2008, but even that date will likely be pushed back. "This is a beautiful disaster," says Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schulz , a Florida Democrat and the chair of an ongoing House hearing on the center's progress. Quips Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican who also chaired the hearings until 2004, "We will have Iraq figured out before the center is finished...
...1980s, a group of lawmakers envisioned it as a modest structure to hold visitors waiting for tours of Capitol Hill. The project stalled during the '90s because of cost concerns, but Congress signed on to the project in 1998 after a lunatic gunman killed two Capitol police, according to Rep. John Mica, a Florida Republican and longtime CVC supporter. Construction began in 2000 with a budget of $265 million and a completion date of 2004. Then came September 11 and the Anthrax scare on Capitol Hill. More security measures were added to the CVC plans, causing immediate delays...
...separate bill by Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California would force the Bush Administration to enforce the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, which targets companies that invest $20 million or more annually in Iran, focusing on its energy sector. Sherman complains that the Bush Administration has routinely waived punishments for big companies from friendly countries...