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Vitter served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1999 before winning a special election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana’s 1st district...
...Growing up in a place like Corning gives you a certain stability because you’re nothing special, you are just one of the people in town,” he said. “That’s very healthy...
...most of Saturday, the media circus of hundreds of protesters outside the Democratic National Committee's special meeting to decide whether to seat Florida and Michigan's delegations was not mirrored inside the doors of the Marriott Wardman Hotel in Washington. As the 30 member Rules & Bylaws Committee heard the various arguments for softening the punishment the DNC had originally meted out to the two states for holding their primaries earlier in the calendar, the audience by and large kept its calm. But then, about nine hours into the seemingly interminable gathering, the crowd turned nasty and the appearance...
...international editions, and I chatted with Blair at a party for the Palestine Investment Conference, which furnishes the opening scene of Mike's revealing and insightful portrait of Blair in this week's issue. During our interview the next day, Blair, who has been working as the special envoy to the Middle East of the U.S.-Russia-European Union-U.N. "Quartet" of powers, was eloquent in arguing why globalization has made the need for an interfaith dialogue more important than ever. At the same time, for someone who is starting a global interfaith initiative and who is deeply religious...
...Except it wasn't. McCain had been leaning on current and former lobbyists for months in part because he's never had a grassroots fund-raising operation akin to Obama's. As a result, he had to shoot down questions about all the special pleaders working for his campaign. "These people have honorable records," he said in February. "And they're honorable people." But his new policy, which was stricter than what some senior advisers favored, undid all that straight talk and prompted a weeklong purge inside the campaign. A number of lobbyists were tossed over the side overnight, generating...