Hill pressure
tipped the balance
on Rice GOP lawmakers told
White House
stance ‘untenable’ By Jonathan
E. Kaplan
President Bush’s decision yesterday
to allow his national security adviser, Condoleezza
Rice, to testify publicly and under oath before an independent
panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was
prompted at least in part by concerns among senior lawmakers
in the House Republican caucus.
They had come to feel that the White
House position had become politically untenable, The
Hill learned. FULL STORY>>
Boston, N.Y. partying
gets serious By Alexander
Bolton
Fortune 500 companies, trade associations
and other wealthy donors are battling furiously over
housing, party venues, restaurants, and A-list guests
before the Democratic and Republican summer conventions
in Boston and New York.
Though the Democratic convention in Beantown is four
months away and the GOP’s Big Apple fete won’t
begin until Aug. 30, the fight over accommodations is
fevered — fueled to a large extent by the new
campaign finance law that prohibits the parties’
convention committees from raising unlimited donations
known as soft money. FULL STORY>>
OoC
steps up efforts,
reaches out to workers By Sarah
Bouchard
GOP dodges Medigate Lawmakers bash Bush,
distance selves from row By
Bob Cusack
Republican lawmakers are distancing themselves from the still
raging Medicare scoring controversy by chastising the Bush administration
for withholding information from Congress.
So far, GOP legislators have dodged the spotlight on accusations
regarding the suppression of Medicare projections to Congress. FULL STORY>> Rodriguez smells
304 ballot rats By Hans
Nichols
The hotly contested
March 9 Democratic primary between incumbent Rep. Ciro Rodriguez
(D-Texas) and Laredo lawyer Henry Cuellar, which is the subject
of an ongoing recount, took a dramatic turn yesterday when Zapata
County found an additional 304 ballots.
When those previously untallied absentee ballots were counted
as part of the recount demanded by Cuellar, he jumped 25 to
30 votes ahead of Rodriguez, who initially had won a 145-vote
victory out of 48,581 ballots cast. FULL STORY>>
