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David Espo / Associated Press:
DeLay Abandons Bid to Remain House Leader — WASHINGTON - Embattled Rep. Tom DeLay on Saturday abandoned his bid to remain as House majority leader, clearing the way for leadership elections among Republicans eager to shed the taint of scandal. — In a letter to rank-and-file Republicans …
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DeLay Surrenders Leadership Post — (CBS/AP) Rep. Tom DeLay, the defiant face of a conservative revolution in Congress, stepped down as House majority leader on Saturday under pressure from Republicans staggered by an election-year corruption scandal. — "During my time in Congress …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Ends Bid to Regain Post as G.O.P. Leader — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Representative Tom DeLay, under pressure from colleagues and swept into an election-year lobbying scandal, abandoned his effort to remain House majority leader on Saturday. The move touched off a battle …
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Washington Post:
DeLay Abandons Bid to Remain House Leader — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) today abandoned his bid to remain House majority leader, bowing to pressure from a growing number of fellow House Republicans who wanted a permanent leadership change because of his indictment on campaign finance charges.
Houston Chronicle:
DeLay won't reclaim House post — WASHINGTON - Entangled in criminal investigations of political activities in Texas and Washington, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay abandoned claims to his House majority leader's post Saturday, a dramatic reversal for the former pest-control company owner who rose to the height of power in Congress.
ABCNEWS:
DeLay Resigns as Majority Leader — 'The Hammer' Falls From Leadership Post — Jan. 7, 2006 — It's been quite a fall for Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the House majority leader who formally stepped down today as he awaits trial on charges of conspiracy and money laundering.
Bloomberg:Hastert Facing Pressure to Take Firm Stand on Replacing DeLay
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New York Times:
Judging Samuel Alito — Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice to fill Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, was hounded into withdrawing by the far right …
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Caren Deane Thomas / New York Times:
Sam He Was — WHEN I recently received an invitation to a reunion of my Yale Law School class, it stirred memories of the astounding group of students I found when I arrived there in 1972. Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the most famous, of course, but my classmates also include someone else who has made news lately: Sam Alito.
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New York Times:
Hearings a Test for Democrats and Alito — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - The showdown begins Monday at high noon. — Even before Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. arrives on Capitol Hill for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appear lined up solidly against him.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
MORE TOWN HALL — Via Michelle Malkin, another revealing moment from the "Town Hall Meeting" featuring congressmen Moran and Murtha. Just before the end of the meeting, Vietnam veteran General Louis C. Wagner spoke on behalf of a friend who had been ignored by the congressman.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
States Intervene After Drug Plan Hits Early Snags — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Low-income Medicare beneficiaries around the country were often overcharged, and some were turned away from pharmacies without getting their medications, in the first week of Medicare's new drug benefit.
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop — WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
John / AMERICAblog:
Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls, cell or land-line, for $110 online — by John in DC - 1/07/2006 03:21:00 PM And the best part? Congress and the Executive branch have known about this problem for half a year or more and no one did a damn thing to fix it.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
We love the troops; but it's a tough love (#144) - UPDATED … Left Coaster also discusses the NYT body armor story, addressed here by Conferederate Yankee, as well as the relative dearth in new jobs created in December (an interesting spin for an unemployment rate that fell below 5%).
Times of London:
Turkish deaths put Europe on bird flu alert — THE number of Turkish people thought to be infected with avian flu rose to more than 50 this weekend, prompting concern that the disease may be about to spread into Europe. — Yesterday a British laboratory confirmed that a Turkish brother …
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A Campaign to Discredit Pro-U.S. Writers and Analysts? — Yesterday, AEI analyst Michael Rubin wrote an article for NRO defending himself from the insinuations of two New York Times reporters that he had improperly concealed an affiliation with a U.S. contractor, the Lincoln Group …
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