Word: delahunt
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Even in this highly polarized environment, as the Republican House prepares to take on a Democratic President, there are some glimmers of detente. Four moderate members of the Judiciary Committee--Democrats William Delahunt and Howard Berman, and Republicans Asa Hutchinson and Lindsey Graham--are holding quiet meetings. From their talks may come the coalition that might devise a way out for everyone...
...White House was cautiously welcoming; Democratic firebrands were more skeptical. "There is no genuine bipartisan conversation yet," said Rep. Barney Frank. Still, four of Frank's more moderate Judiciary colleagues -- Bill Delahunt and Howard Berman for the Dems, Asa Hutchinson and Lindsey Graham for the GOP -- have started lunching together to see if they can't whip this committee into Watergate-like shape. The House, divided against itself, may yet stand...
...WILLIAM DELAHUNT (D) District 10 (South Shore--Cape Cod; islands...
...Delahunt's trip to the general election has been remarkable: despite a 50-point lead in the polls, he lost the primary by 266 votes, lost a recount by 175 votes, then, according to a judge, citing errors made in faulty ballot scanners, won by 108 votes. Supporting abortion rights, Head Start and the assault-weapons ban, Delahunt hopes to win the seat of 24-year incumbent Gerry Studds--preferably, in a more conventional...
Bowles, an environmentalist and former Capitol Hill staffer, lost to Norfolk County District Attorney William Delahunt in the Democratic primary to for the tenth district being vacated by retiring Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Cohasset...