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By JACK GERMOND & JULES WITCOVER | March 22, 1994
WASHINGTON -- It is no secret to anyone with even minimal street smarts that the White House has been politically inept in its handling of the Whitewater controversy. But there is also a legitimate question about whether the Republicans may be overplaying their hand.On the face of it, the Republican demands for congressional inquiries have an obvious legitimacy. There is no reason the appointment of special counsel Robert Fiske should dilute the responsibilities of Congress for oversight.
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By JACK GERMOND & JULES WITCOVER | October 6, 1993
WASHINGTON -- Almost 20 years ago, during a congressional recess early in 1974, a reporter went to Peoria to spend a few days with Rep. Robert Michel. The idea was to find out how voters in a quintessentially Republican district were feeling about the embattled Republican president, Richard M. Nixon.Michel, already a member of the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives, was at that point a staunch defender of Nixon.But Michel didn't try to sugarcoat it. On the contrary, he allowed the reporter to accompany him to one meeting after another with his constituents.
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By Douglas MacKinnon | February 18, 2007
The infantile food fight taking place in Congress in recent days over which partisan, nonbinding Iraq resolution would get a vote is nothing short of a national embarrassment. Worse, it is a slap in the face to the troops in harm's way who are desperately looking for adult leadership from those who helped send them there. Be it the House, the Senate or the White House, all too often, the arguments now being framed with regard to Iraq are being offered based on lowest-common-denominator, partisan self-interest.
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By Larry Carson and Larry Carson,larry.carson@baltsun.com | May 3, 2009
The idea that a huge partisan divide separates Democrats from Republicans in the Maryland General Assembly seemed absurd at the Howard County Chamber of Commerce's annual legislative wrap-up discussion last week. The Senate's majority and minority leaders - Republican Allan H. Kittleman and Democrat Edward J. Kasemeyer - blew rhetorical kisses at each other, and Del. James E. Malone Jr., a Democrat, spoke of his close relations with at least one conservative county Republican. "Warren Miller is one of my best friends in Annapolis," Malone said at the breakfast event at the Sheraton Hotel in Columbia, noting that conservative and moderate Democrats often work together with the vastly outnumbered Republicans.
NEWS
June 29, 2008
The report issued last week by the Justice Department's inspector general only confirmed what many had long suspected: Since 2002, the Bush administration has worked to deliberately undermine the department's independence from political meddling by packing it with conservative ideologues. The report said administration officials trampled the department's long-standing policy of merit-based recruiting in favor of political litmus tests that systematically weeded out Democrats and liberals.
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By Elizabeth Shogren and Elizabeth Shogren,LOS ANGELES TIMES | May 6, 2004
WASHINGTON - The 30 companies that own most of the dirtiest power plants in the country, and their trade association, have raised $6.6 million for President Bush and the Republican National Committee since 1999, and were given relief from pollution regulations that would have cost them billions of dollars, according to a new analysis. Ten utility industry officials were so good at fund raising for the president that they were named Rangers or Pioneers by his campaign for bringing in at least $200,000 or $100,000, respectively, according to the analysis by Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, and the Environmental Integrity Project, an environmental watchdog organization.