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CONGRESSMAN ZACH WAMP, Republican of Tennessee, after the House of Representatives reversed a rule change that would have allowed majority leader Tom DeLay to retain his post if indicted. The House later changed another rule to make it harder to oust DeLay if any charges are brought...
...eyes had been lasers, mine would have been burned out." ZACH WAMP, Republican Congressman of Tennessee, after President Bush asked him to back off a proposal that would have required Iraq to repay $10 billion in aid. Wamp backed...
...action opposed it by roughly 10 to 1. Still, it has the support of key G.O.P. leaders, and President Bush has threatened to veto any bill overturning it. Republicans who are breaking ranks on the issue face growing party pressure. On the morning of the vote, Congressman Zach Wamp, a Republican from Tennessee who voted to kill the FCC plan, spotted House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin, who backs it. "I kind of ducked to the left," he said, "went around a column and down three flights of stairs." --By Viveca Novak. With reporting by Eric Roston
...Wamp is not running from Newt Gingrich in this campaign, but is trying to shed a zealous image to protect his narrow 1994 victory. Tennessee's Third District ranks fifth in the country in federal funding, and Wamp has juggled protection of that money with balancing the budget, a goal he says is worth losing his seat over. But the Department of Energy--a department on the G.O.P. hit list--spends $2 billion a year in the district...
...private lenders--the deal is a hard sell to voters skeptical about helping either foreign nations or the Wall Street investors whose money is still in Mexican securities. At a press conference last week at which anti-bailout freshmen teamed with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, first-termer Wamp promised to vote ``with the people of east Tennessee this time and not with [Fed Chairman] Mr. Greenspan.'' And while that puts the freshmen on the opposite side from their own leadership as well, Stockman says, ``In reality, I'm trying to save them from themselves...