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Hoping to quiet calls for his permanent removal as the result of an ethics investigation, Democratic Representative Charles Rangel of New York said on March 3 that he would temporarily step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. While the probe has already confirmed that Rangel violated congressional gift rules by going on two corporate-sponsored Caribbean trips, the list of additional allegations before the panel is a lengthy one, including tax violations involving his Dominican Republic home and the illegal use of a New York City apartment as a campaign office...
...plan under which Washington would offer tax breaks for all kinds of consumer purchases and home improvements that reduce energy use. By November, Doerr made his Roosevelt Room presentation, and before long, the Home Star plan was on the President's desk. Doerr sees Home Star as the next step in creating a new national focus on energy conservation that will generate "thousands" of jobs at the same time, say White House aides. "Never before has anybody pulled together a coalition and said we can take this practice - 100,000 or 200,000 science-based home retrofits - to a whole...
...were trying to step up our game when we’re on the power play,” co-captain Kathryn Farni said. “[To] capitalize on that chance definitely picks up your spirits a little bit. I thought we played really hard, and we took a lot of great shots. To be rewarded for that felt awesome...
...weapons of mass destruction, and therefore everybody thought Saddam was a threat. Rove offers a damning list of Democratic politicians acting like politicians - making bellicose statements prior to the war, then criticizing Bush for rushing in when no WMD turned up. Touché. But then he goes a step too far. "Perhaps the most pathetic display of hypocrisy came from one of America's most embittered politicians: former Vice President Al Gore," Rove writes. He proceeds to quote a 2002 Gore speech: "We know that [Saddam] has stored away supplies of biological weapons and chemical weapons throughout his country." Rove...
...Even if the results are accepted, the current pattern suggests bad news for Maliki. It has been widely suggested that most of the potential coalition partners to whom his bloc would turn would insist that Maliki himself step down and accept an alternative candidate for Prime Minister. A frenzy of negotiations among leaders from all the political blocs is already under way, but it could take weeks - even months - to yield a new government. Accusations of ballot fraud could undermine the legitimacy of any new government and also weaken Maliki, who will remain in charge until one is formed...