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...Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has anything to say about it. The three-term Congressman has become a major player in this debate by devising a commonsense compromise that, Pence believes, still has a chance to break the legislative logjam between competing House and Senate bills...
...Democrats are smelling blood as Fletcher's problems mount. All the while, McConnell has uncharacteristically stayed out of the fray, and kept his focus in Washington, where he is deputy Senate majority leader and Bill Frist's heir apparent. "McConnell was absolutely right in singling out [then-U.S. Rep.] Ernie Fletcher as the candidate most likely to win the governorship," in 2003 said John David Dyche, a Louisville lawyer and political columnist. "But [McConnell] has not been involved in the administration itself. He assumed a basic-level competence that did not materialize...
...more practical reasons. In 1965, when handyman Albert DeSalvo told police he was the Boston Strangler, he confessed to having brutally murdered 13 women. Some experts now suspect that DeSalvo, who at the time was in custody on lesser charges, hoped the lavish claims would bolster his rep in prison and save him from execution via an insanity plea...
When politicians usually travel to Iraq, they go on "fact-finding missions" and are photographed shaking hands with U.S. troops. Arizona Rep. Jonathan Paton is going to fight. The 35-year-old is a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves and a freshman Republican state representative for District 30, which extends from parts of Tucson to the Arizona-Mexico border. Paton, who is not married but has a girlfriend, will leave for Iraq at the beginning of September and will return in mid- to late-January. While he is in the war zone, he will miss the primary election...
...says he doesn't know if his opponents in the primary will take his absence as an opportunity to attack him without consequence, or avoid the topic of him in Iraq entirely knowing it could boost his popularity in a district where 50% of the voters are Republican. Rep. Marian McClure, who occupies the other seat in District 30 and is one of four Republicans vying for the two seats, says that there's no chance this is simply an election ploy. "He is a young man doing his duty to his country, and anyone that knows Mr. Paton knows...