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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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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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CBS News:
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 …
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.
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.
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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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.
Caren Deane Thomas / New York Times:Sam He Was — WHEN I recently received an invitation to a reunion …
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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.
Media Blog on National Review Online:
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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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 …
Gary Rivlin / New York Times:
All Parts of New Orleans Included in Rebuilding Plan — NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7 - The city's official blueprint for redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina, to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged …
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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%).
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child' — ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days.
