Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DeLay, a fellow Texan and former House majority leader who once got red carpet treatment, announced he was leaving Congress. Bush appreciated and even depended on DeLay's ability to get things done, but some of his former aides and associates are central players in the lobbying corruption scandal that has become a headache for all Republicans...
...here.This is not to say that rape cannot or will not happen on the Harvard campus, by athletes or others. But the way in which Harvard athletics are administered helps to avoid the entitlement issues seen at other schools. Hopefully, it will help us avoid the infamy and scandal that too often accompanies college athletics.—Staff writer Brad A. Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government...
...Lampson has made a major issue of the lobbying scandal, and his campaign home page has a petition headed, "Tell Tom DeLay to Return the Dirty Money!," referring to contributions from he and his political action committees have received from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a one-time DeLay ally who pleaded guilty in January to three felonies, including conspiring to defraud clients and bribe public officials...
...decision means that he no longer has to fear any further sanctions from the House ethics committee, which admonished him three times in 1994 for official conduct deemed inappropriate by members, but has been paralyzed for more than a year and has taken no action in the more recent scandal. Sources close to DeLay said he remains under investigation by the Justice Department prosecutors, who now have Abramoff's cooperation, but the lawmaker said he has nothing to fear from the feds. "I paid lawyers to investigate me as if they were prosecuting me," he said. "They found nothing. There...