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...Harman agreed to try to influence an ongoing criminal investigation in return for help securing a committee chairmanship, her conduct not only violates federal law and House rules, but also her oath to uphold the Constitution." -Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, on the allegations Harman faces. (Roll Call, April...
...name of that individual has not been disclosed, though sources told the New York Times that the person promised in return to convince Hollywood Democratic fundraiser Haim Saban (popularizer of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) to withhold funds from then minority leader Nancy Pelosi unless Pelosi gave Harman the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee when and if the Democrats won back the House in 2006. (Read TIME's exclusive 2006 report on the government's investigation of Harman...
...throwback to the days when it was not so unusual for the two parties to work together in the Senate. Baucus' closest friend in the chamber is the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, an equally rough-hewn legislator, with whom he has traded the chairmanship three times since 2001. The two meet at least once a week and boast a rare degree of cooperation. "As far as working together and trying to find solutions," says Grassley, their aides function as "basically one staff...
...records" of the sort that in the past required only a "kind of correction." The investigation has since widened to include alleged donations from Nishimatsu to LDP politicians, but the main focus so far has been on the DPJ. Ozawa says he will not step down from the party chairmanship; nonetheless, a few days after the arrest was made public, three newspaper polls found a majority of respondents thinking that he should...
...book fiasco seemed like yet another instance of bad timing on Dodd's part. After all, being chairman of the Senate Banking Committee gave him little street cred in the 2008 primaries, when the big issue was still the war in Iraq. These days his chairmanship reminds voters of Dodd's problems with Countrywide, and fairly or not, it makes him the face of two deeply unpopular bailouts of Wall Street and an only slightly less unpopular stimulus plan. All of which may explain why Dodd is spending so much time on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee these...