Word: repping
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...timeline of Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail scandal from warnings to pages from a Republican staff member to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's admission that he was told about the e-mails...
House Speaker Dennis Hastert rose to power because of a sex scandal, and now another one eight years later is threatening to take him down. The controversy around former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned last Friday after e-mails and instant messages that showed him making inappropriate and at times lurid comments to Capitol Hill pages, has now shifted to the questions that have defined every Washington scandal since Watergate: which higher-ups knew, when they knew it, and whether there was a cover-up. Hastert, as the leader of the Republicans in the House, is getting the closest...
...Abramoff used to be a problem for the White House primarily because his illegal lobbying activities got G.O.P. members of Congress in legal and political hot water and helped fuel Democrats' campaign message that congressional Republicans were a corrupt bunch that should be thrown out of power. Both Ohio Rep. Bob Ney and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas announced they were stepping down from Congress this year after being dogged by questions about their relationships with the disgraced lobbyist, who has plead guilty to mail fraud and bribery; Ney has already pleaded guilty to bribery charges, while...
...Rep. Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, asserted that the report shows that despite the President's contention that fighting terrorists in Baghdad means Americans won't have to fight them in Boston, "The opposite is true. Because we are fighting them there, it may become more likely that we'll have to fight them here...
...Etheredge - who told reporters she was there with Owens - provided the other details to officials, according to the leaked report obtained by WFAA-TV. Owens' rep told police that she noticed his pain medication bottle was empty while he was "putting 2 pills in his mouth" so she "attempted to put her fingers" in his mouth "to retrieve the pills." Owens had received the prescription - for 40 pills - after surgery on Sept. 18, but had taken only 5 to date, she told police. Owens, interviewed by police as he was in the ambulance, told them he had taken the remainder...