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To: steve harris who wrote (261091)	11/19/2005 12:33:37 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1573857

GOP Lawmakers Float Ethics Probe of Murtha Roll Call ^ \| Friday, Nov. 18 \| John Bresnahan Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee... According to a June 13 article in The Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well. KSA directly lobbied Murtha's office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times. In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was an executive with the firm at that time. Murtha also inserted earmarks in defense bills that steered millions of dollars in federal research funds toward companies owned by children of fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D). (Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...

To: steve harris who wrote (261091)	11/19/2005 1:02:15 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Gutless wonders. When push came to shove, only three of the, what, 210(?) Dems in Congress had the guts to vote how they felt. Six more showed real courage of convictions by voting present. They've been spouting off for weeks about how we need to get out, but they didn't have the guts to vote that way.

To: steve harris who wrote (261091)	11/19/2005 1:05:30 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1573857

Pullout rejected 403-3 By Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 19, 2005 The House last night overwhelmingly voted down a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, as Republicans tried to draw a line in the sand after a week's worth of back-and-forth charges over the war. The resolution failed 403-3, with six voting present. Those voting for it were Democrats Cynthia A. McKinney of Georgia, Robert Wexler of Florida and Jose E. Serrano of New York. Republican leaders wanted to force Democrats to take a stand on whether they endorsed Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. John P. Murtha's Thursday proposal to begin a six-month withdrawal from Iraq. Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, put a resolution on the floor for a vote urging "that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately." "We're going to let every member answer that, and I hope the message that goes back to our troops in Iraq is that we do not support a precipitous pullout," Mr. Hunter said before the vote. Other Republicans were more direct: "We'll put it to a vote, see if Democrats really want immediate withdrawal," said Rep. Jack Kingston, the Georgia Republican who represents the home base of the Army's 3rd Infantry. "Their hate for George Bush is so great they don't seem to care about the ramifications of reckless statements."