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House GOP to object to Jefferson's Homeland Security seat
« on: February 28, 2007, 03:00:36 PM »
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, announced Wednesday that Republicans will object on the House floor to Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, getting a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee.

Jefferson is entangled in a federal bribery investigation related to his dealings with a telecommunications company. Federal investigators found $90,000 in cash in his freezer in 2005 after Jefferson allegedly accepted a $100,000 bribe from an FBI informant. Despite the investigation, Jefferson was re-elected to a ninth term to his New Orleans' seat in a run-off election in December.

Blunt called the move by the Speaker Pelosi, who trumped ethics reform in last fall's congressional campaign, "such a contradiction to what the Speaker said she stood for during the campaign."

After the House Democratic caucus approved the committee assignment last night, the matter moves to the House floor. Typically committee assignments are passed unanimously on the floor without recorded votes. But Blunt told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans will object when the issue comes up on the floor and request a recorded vote.

Blunt said, "I think our side will generally think that this is not only not a good idea but totally inconsistent with the major point that the Speaker made when she wanted to be the Speaker - that this would not be allowed, that there were penalties on their side. And the idea that Homeland Security is somehow less important than the tax-writing committee I think is a ludicrous idea."

-- CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh

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Re: House GOP to object to Jefferson's Homeland Security seat
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 08:33:00 PM »


Here we have Roy Blunt having the balls to accuse a friendly freezer guy about a mere $90,000, while he and his peers mention nothing at all, ever, about the billions missing from the accounts of Bremer and Halliburton.

What amazes me is that Blunt can carry off that high a hypocracy with a straight face.

Americans, otherwise occupied, are about to climax, and will when Anna Nicole's millions find a designee.

The World is watching while we gloriously binge on Paris Hilton, B. Spears and Anna Nicole.

What they all have in common is pompously empty heads and unearned money.   Paris Hilton is Barbie Doll come alive.  Her blazing star is the Valhallah Day for Narcissism.

 
The most significant sign of hope?   England's royalty eight-sixing Big Mac for health reasons.



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Re: House GOP to object to Jefferson's Homeland Security seat
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 08:37:02 PM »
Here we have Roy Blunt having the balls to accuse a friendly freezer guy about a mere $90,000, while he and his peers mention nothing at all, ever, about the billions missing from the accounts of Bremer and Halliburton.

So, it's an amount thing?

What's the dollar figure that corruption must remain under to be OK to the Democrats?
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