Lawmaker Tied to Abramoff to Retire
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Representative John Doolittle of California was once a rising star in the Republican Party until he came under investigation in a scandal involving Jack Abramoff.
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Former associates of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had dozens of appointments with Bush administration staff members, according to Secret Service visitor logs the White House released yesterday to settle a lawsuit by the Democratic Party and an ethics watchdog group.
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Susan B. Ralston has resigned from the White House in the wake of a report that she served as a conduit between Jack Abramoff and Karl Rove.
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A GOP environmentalist who arranged lobbyist Jack Abramoff's entree into the Interior Department was sentenced to two months in a halfway house and four years probation
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Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), who led much of Congress&#39; oversight of federal information technology during the past two years, has left the House Government Reform Committee and joined the Rules Committee.
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Niki Tsongas ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ the widow of the late Massachusetts Democratic Sen.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as his budget called for strict cuts elsewhere, the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has told New York lawmakers.
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California&#39;s two state pensions, with $292 billion in combined assets, would be replaced with 401(k)-type plans under a proposal by a state lawmaker who vows to hold a
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Three-term Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican facing a federal inquiry into his family's insurance business, said Thursday he will not seek re-election next year. Renzi becomes the fifth GOP House member in recent weeks to announce retirement plans, giving Democrats hopes of possibly picking up seats next year that otherwise would not be in play.
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Rep. John Shadegg, who announced earlier this week that he wouldn't seek an eighth term, may be reconsidering his decision to retire, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America announced yesterday that retiring Rep. WJ&quot;Billy&quot; Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce until
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A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office Â at the risk of alienating their constituents.
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik answers questions after speaking at the New York Republican State Committee 2004 Designation Meeting in Syracuse, NY in this May 19, 2004 file photo.
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Eight-term Republican Rep. John T. Doolittle of CaliforniaÃ¢ÂÂs 4th District has not faced legal repercussions stemming from his past association with now-convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Still to be determined, though, is whether there will be any serious reverberations on Nov. 7 Ã¢ÂÂ when voters go the polls in a Republican stronghold that the conservative Doolittle has dominated in his past elections.
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By Susan Kuczka, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 8--It's been six years since former Republican U.S. Rep. John Porter resigned his 10th District seat in the House of Representatives to join a prestigious Washington law firm after representing the North Shore in Congress for 21 years.
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A Congressional report finds hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Struggling U.S. companies must not  use the federal pension agency as a "dumping ground" for their  pension plans in order to survive, a key lawmaker working on  pension reform legislation warned on Tuesday.