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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (18082)2/28/2007 8:10:59 AM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Speaking of grubs(worms) check this out! Didn't Paloosi say she was going to drain the swamp? Looks like she is installing whatever crawls out of the swamp to high committees.

Dem tied to bribery probe gets homeland post

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eight months after Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson was ousted from the powerful House Ways and Means Committee for allegedly chilling stacks of dubious cash in his freezer, his Democratic colleagues voted to give him a seat on the Homeland Security Committee.

The House Democratic caucus approved Speaker Nancy Pelosi's appointment Tuesday of Jefferson to the homeland security panel, a decision that has come under fire from Republicans.

After the meeting, Jefferson said the vote was "not contentious" and that there was "no dissent."

Pelosi also said the homeland security panel "is an appropriate place for him to be," given its jurisdiction over matters related to Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Jefferson's New Orleans-area district.

In June, Pelosi moved to strip Jefferson of his assignment on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee after federal prosecutors revealed $90,000 in cash had been found in the congressman's freezer in August 2005.
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