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Pages remember time on Hill as carefully supervised thrill
By CAROLINE E. RUSE and BRIAN DUGGAN
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
They were witnesses to history, say several former House pages, and their time in the nation's capital made it hard to return to their former lives as high school students.
Jeff Leider, 22, a 2000 page sponsored by Rep.
Post-Foley White House Advice: GOP Should Focus on 'Achievements'
Read advice from a White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, on how GOP campaigns should deal with the e-mail disclosures that led to the resignation of Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley.
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Subject: PRESS GAGGLE BY DANA PERINO, a White House spokesperson
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Englewood, Colorado)
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For Immediate Release October 4, 2006
PRESS GAGGLE
BY
DANA PERINO
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Aurora, Colorado
12:03 P.M. MDT
....REPORTER: What would the President advise the Republican Party on how to handle this Foley scandal, in terms of the midterm elections being so close?
MS. PERINO: I think the President has his eye on the ball when it comes to campaigning and I think his advice to other candidates would be to be campaigning in their districts on the Republicans' clear record of achievement when it comes to protecting the country and making sure that we have policies in place that will ensure a strong and growing economy; drawing distinctions between the tough talk that we've heard, about the votes that are taken; and also the congressmen in their own words regarding tax policy, the higher taxes that they might advocate if they were to go into power.
So I think that keeping your eye on the ball would be the best advice, in terms of this midterm election season as we head into the home stretch.
Okay, thank you.
12:09 P.M. MDT
Watchdog Group Seeks Outside Review of GOP Leaders Over Foley E-mails
A national nonpartisan group, Democracy 21, wrote 10/4 to the House Ethics Committee seeking appointment of an outside counsel to review actions of Republican House leaders who knew months ago of an e-mail sent by then-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., to a teen former page asking for his photo.
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Which Members of Congress Received Rep. Foley's Donations
You can see if members of Congress or federal candidates from your area received campaign donations from then-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. From study by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Click here to go to the list.
Foley molested by clergyman as youth, lawyer says
By AMIE PARNES
Former Congressman Mark Foley was molested by a member of the clergy when he was a teenager but "continues to offer no excuse whatsoever" for sending sexually explicit Internet messages to teenage boys who worked as congressional pages, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The attorney, David Roth, also told a news conference: "Mark Foley wants you to know that he is a gay man."
Roth said the disgraced former lawmaker from south Florida was abused between the ages of 13 and 15 but would not name the clergyman or the church where the molestation occurred.
Who's who in the Foley scandal
By THOMAS HARGROVE
Here is a cast of characters and memorable quotations in the rapidly expanding scandal around former Rep. Mark Foley, including other members of Congress and staffers caught in the fallout.
Mark Foley _ Six-term Republican congressman for Florida's 16th District who resigned Friday after news reporters confronted him with sexually explicit Internet instant messaging transcripts with a former House page.
FBI wants to talk with pages
By THOMAS HARGROVE and AMIE PARNES
FBI agents plan to "authenticate" the widely distributed sexually explicit Internet transcripts between former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., and one-time House pages and will be interviewing the teenagers, a Department of Justice official said Tuesday.
Justice officials said they are also considering whether federal or Florida laws apply in the case, the source said.
On Monday, federal officials said they were conducting a preliminary legal assessment into the matter.
Political battle over Foley heats up
By MARA LEE
From one direction, embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert took it on the chin Tuesday when an influential conservative newspaper demanded his resignation for not intervening sooner in what has become the biggest sex scandal to rock Washington since the days of Monica Lewinsky.
In an editorial Tuesday, the Washington Times, a voice from the right that carries weight in the Bush administration and conservative quarters in Washington and beyond, called for Hastert to step down.
It blasted him for essentially shrugging off indications that Rep.
New gambling law could land hard on big gaming companies
By LIZ BENSTON
Fallout from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 may land hard on two of Las Vegas' biggest gaming companies, Harrah's Entertainment and MGM Mirage. Each has tapped poker fans who love Internet play and then turn to Vegas for the real action.
When those gamblers try to log onto their PartyPoker.com account, they'll soon discover they can no longer place a bet.
