Who's Tom DeLay?Byline: The Register-Guard House Republicans elected John Boehner to replace Tom DeLay as majority leader Thursday, hoping the change will distance them from the lobbying scandal that embroils the capital. DeLay, who stepped down as majority leader last year to face criminal charges in his home state of Texas, suddenly seems to have almost as few friends in Washington, D.C., as lobbyist Jack Abramoff Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. . Boehner's election was greeted as an upset over Roy Blunt of Missouri, who had served as interim majority leader since DeLay's departure. Blunt had agreed to serve temporarily until DeLay's legal problems were resolved. Then came lobbyist Abramoff's guilty plea to fraud and kindred KINDRED. Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and other ascendants. 3. felonies last month. Abramoff's connections to DeLay make it unlikely that the former majority leader will ever return. Blunt was too much a reminder of DeLay and Abramoff, two names House Republicans would like Americans to forget before this year's elections. Boehner, an Ohio congressman in his eighth term, is not an outsider Outsider often refers to one identified as on the periphery of social norms, one living or working apart from mainstream society, or one observing a group from the outside, as used in:
Boehner now promises to be a reformer, favoring limits on House members' ability to obtain funds for pork-barrel projects. Such limits would be welcome, if they are fairly applied. Even without the ability to distribute pork, however, members of Congress will still need to continually raise campaign funds - and the most ready source of such funds will be industries, organizations and individuals seeking favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. treatment in legislation. DeLay became the public face of a system in which money has blurred blur v. blurred, blur·ring, blurs v.tr. 1. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure. 2. To smear or stain; smudge. 3. the distinction between public policy and private interest. Boehner won't have DeLay's brass-knuckle style. But nothing in the nature of congressional politics, with its endless courtship courtship paying attention to a member of the opposite sex with a view to mating; occurs in farm animals but is not highly developed other than estral display by the female and seeking by the male, activities that are rather more pragmatic than implied in the definition. between campaigns and donors, has changed. |
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