House Moves Against Embattled Jefferson
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Monday's indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) touched off an ethics battle in the House yesterday, with leaders from both parties moving quickly against Jefferson even as they accused each other of having no real interest in tighter ethics rules.
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The White House and GOP leaders are standing together in supporting embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire over the handling of the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. A conservative newspaper has called on Hastert, R-Illinois, to step down, but he says that won't be happening.
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Monday's indictment of Rep. William Jefferson may revive pressure to fulfill their clean-government pledge.
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Democrats are ratcheting up their efforts to oust Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in the wake of the congressional page scandal that has raised pointed questions about how Reynolds handled the issue when he first learned of it.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), indicted on federal bribery charges, said yesterday in court papers that he did nothing illegal and accused prosecutors of bringing the case against him in Virginia because there would be fewer black jurors.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since Monday's indictment on bribery, racketeering and money-laundering charges, vowing to "sell every stick of furniture in our home and anything else we may own" to fight the government's accusations.
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Under pressure from House Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be backing away from a plan to place Rep. William J. Jefferson on the Homeland Security Committee.
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Representative William Jefferson was charged with soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
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The US House of Representatives is to vote on a resolution opposing President George W. Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq, the first major repudiation of the increasingly unpopular war.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded Wednesday that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson&#039;s office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances.
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The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to cite two White House aides -- one current, one former -- for contempt of Congress, another step toward a constitutional showdown between the Democratic-controlled Congress and the Bush administration.
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The Christian Science Monitor - The Senate deadlocked just 90 minutes into a debate last week over President Bush's "new way forward" in Iraq. Now the action shifts to the House, where Democrats aim for an up-or-down vote on his policy.
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The House enacted a change that would effectively dismiss a complaint in the event of a deadlock in the ethics committee.
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The incoming leader of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a bid by a lawmaker earlier ousted as a federal judge on corruption charges to head a congressional panel that helps protect America's security.
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Louisiana Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson Ã¢ÂÂ burdened by a highly publicized federal investigation into whether he took bribes Ã¢ÂÂ nonetheless won SaturdayÃ¢ÂÂs runoff election in LouisianaÃ¢ÂÂs 2nd District, and even appears to have defeated Democratic state Rep. Karen Carter by a comfortable margin.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat indicted yesterday on federal bribery charges, gave up his only remaining House committee job today but said the action was not an admission of guilt in the case.
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House Republicans voted to abandon a party rule that requires a member of the leadership to step aside if indicted.