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...an expensive and sometime contentious campaign.On the House side, Rep. Peggy Wilson, R-Wrangell, the House majority whip, won in a three-way race that included Rep. Kyle Johansen, R-Ketchikan. Johansen, a former House majority...
...District 33, after skipping a crowded GOP primary. The race includes Rep. Peggy Wilson, R-Wrangell, the House majority whip, and Democrat Matt Olsen.Democratic Rep. Pete Petersen and Republican Rep. Lance Pruitt are competing in District...
...monthly fees on customers for using their debit cards.The move prompted howls of protest, including ones from Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who took to the Senate floor to encourage customers to remove their money from banks that...
...dreamed up. Don Young has greater-than-average connections with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay. And Alaskans disapprove of his arrogance. He's "phoning in" his campaign again this year and doesn't...
...circumstances are right. "I've got good support," said Young. But he would not seek the seat if his friend, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, sought it, he said. Young has been chairman of the House Committee on Transportation...
...political say he'd have standing alone. Foster will retain his seat on the House Finance Committee and the title of majority whip. His one vote gives the Republican-led caucus the two-thirds majority needed to pass some procedural measures...
...The first blowhard to insinuate himself into the Elian dispute was Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who is the House majority whip. Soon after Elian's father arrived in Washington, DeLay suggested that he pay a visit to Capitol Hill to meet GOP...
...public disillusionment with the delaying tactics. A vote has been promised during July. Now Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom DeLay have a new stratagem: Let the matter come up for a vote, but adopt an amended version so as to require...
...of victory no matter how far away it might seem, acknowledges the troop surge is producing results. So does Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill. Of course, they quickly add, as did Levin, that a political settlement has not yet been...
...chairman of several Senate committees, including the powerful Rules and Appropriations panel. For three years, he was majority whip. When the Democrats took back control of the Senate in January 2007, he lost his chairmanships but remained ranking...