Pelosi Passes Her First Test; But the Honeymoon Is Over
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” for receiving multiple deferments during the Vietnam War and implying that the description also fit President Bush, who rode out the war in the Texas Air National Guard.
Bob Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Administration Committee and a key Congressional player in campaign finance, said in a recent interview that “a lot of Members on both sides of the aisle are asking
It is a great irony of American history: Thomas Jefferson, the man credited with coining the term “separation of church and state,” wrote his own version of the Bible — and for decades the views in that
system, and open up the process to the public and the press.”
The speculation was sparked by an interview Gingrich gave to The Associated Press in which he answered a question about his presidential aspirations by saying, “Anything is possible.”
“John Lapp understands firsthand what it takes to win in marginal districts and how to re-elect those candidates,” Emanuel said in an interview Friday.
“What excites me about the new Congress?” Russell, 72, pondered in a phone interview from his home in D.C. “Well, gridlock is in place already. That’s great, I love gridlock.”
“There’s a tremendous opportunity for synergy in what we do for the next two years,” Mehlman said in an interview. “I think the Republican Party can be a big force in helping pass the agenda.
“We need to move the debate away from the right wing fringe and back toward the middle where most Americans can agree,” Schumer wrote in the mailing, which went out last week.
The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was 63. Although his 60-year-old widow is expected to enjoy support from most of the D.C.
Talk that the former Michigan secretary of state would take on the freshman Stabenow “really wasn’t [at] my impetus,” said Miller, who was just elected to a second term in the House.
“I wanted to send a very clear signal that I had support from all over this country,” said Rosenberg in an interview Friday.
One of the first acts of the second-term board was deciding to file a “friend of the court” brief in a case before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Member of the Commerce panel, who spoke freely about the proposal on the condition of anonymity.
John Thune (R) was the surprise of the 2004 cycle, marking the first time since 1952 that a Senate leader had been defeated for re-election.
Michael Simpson (R-Idaho) to the Nip-and-Tuck Club. We suspected he had joined the club when we spotted him in the Speaker’s Lobby last week with a pair of puffy, black eyes.
The House GOP Steering Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) take over the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee in the 109th Congress.
The 39-member panel will spend the next year reviewing the Democratic primary schedule.
plans for the new Congress.