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...answered questions fully and proved he wasn't a radical. Biden said that without an explanation during the hearing of Robert's past writings, he'd have to vote against him-implying that if he came clean, Roberts could win a yes vote from the Delaware Democrat. One Democratic staffer explained the tactic as playing to Roberts' need to win, in the hopes that the man who has argued and won so many cases in front of the Supreme Court can be lured out of his carefully maintained defenses to answer hot-button questions on race, abortion and religion...
...Clayton Spencer, a veteran Massachussetts Hall staffer from the days of Neil L. Rudenstein, has been promoted to vice president for policy, where she will assume broad oversight of Summers’ administration in a position that has never previously existed...
...same time, the lead staffer for that task force, Katarzyna E. “Kasia” Lundy ’95, has been promoted to Summers’ chief of staff, replacing Jason M. Solomon ’93-’95, who left last spring...
...similar shindig, as has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Attendees get to mingle below the radar at the publicity- free events, which are billed at less than $50 a head to comply with Senate ethics rules. "Why have a lobbyist pay for it?" asks a senior Republican's top staffer. "I think that [question] answers itself." --By Adam Zagorin and James Carney
...congressman at the MCI Center in Washington. Watchdog groups have called for a House ethics committee investigation of whether there was any connection between Ney's actions and the fundraiser. Ney says he was "duped" by Abramoff and his associate, public relations operative Michael Scanlon, a former staffer to Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay...