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...their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake and that the lab is better off as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration. (All the nuclear labs just underwent a major...
...rebounding economy and a lack of other rallying issues could help the Republicans. The Democrats "don't have a whole lot of running room this time," says California Representative Ellen Tauscher, the national vice chair of the Democratic Leadership Council. Congressional redistricting, which is mandated every decade in accordance with the new Census count, is still under way, but so far the redrawn lines appear to favor most House incumbents. No more than two dozen of the 435 House races may really be up for grabs, and many of them are in Republican-friendly areas in the South and Midwest...
...Both Tauscher and moderator David Nyham ’62, a former columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, blamed the media for its lack of responsibility in political coverage, which they said has dwindled and become more scandal-driven in recent years...
...Tauscher said the media does not pay attention to Democrats in general because they do not create enough of a stir...
Both he and Tauscher said the criticism the party has recieved regarding its lack of a unified public presence was largely undeserved, and due to the lack of a party-member’s presence in the oval office...