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...give me the wine-and-dine baloney, young lady.' ARLEN SPECTER, Republican Senator, reprimanding radio host Laura Ingraham for suggesting that he supported the stimulus package because he attended a White House cocktail hour...
...time for Georgia to be up in arms over school integration again. In 1961, when a federal court ordered the University of Georgia to admit two black students, 1,000 white rioters hurled firecrackers, bricks and racial epithets through dorm windows. But 1961 this is not: today a white Republican is leading the charge, and black students and lawmakers are fighting for the status...
...Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House. "Now somebody was listening." (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...Representatives, for instance, Twittered in real time President Obama's meeting two weeks ago with their conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the stimulus plan, raising questions about the levels of privacy members can now expect from closed-door meetings. A sampling from Representative Michael Burgess, a Texas Republican...
...direct, in fact, that until recently, Representatives weren't even allowed to use sites like Twitter. But last summer, Representative John Culberson, a Texas Republican who not only posts Tweets but video-blogs on Twitter, helped organize a petition to allow members broader access to social-networking sites. Culberson cornered Michael Capuano, chairman of the House Franking Commission (officially the Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) in a corridor with a video-enabled cell phone to ask him about opening up the rules. Such moves led to a protest website, letourcongresstweet.org, and Twitter's first petition. The rules were relaxed...