Change to GOP rules would allow DeLay to keep post if indicted
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay by changing a party rule that likely would have forced him to step down if he is indicted in a Texas political corruption investigation.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert is considering replacing the chairman of the ethics committee, which admonished Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is the focus of a grand jury probe into his campaign finance practices.
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Moving to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates.
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Election officials said a new rule barring hand recounts in 15 counties with touchscreen voting systems will remain in place until after Tuesday's primary &#151; despite a judge's invalidation of the rule.
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House Republicans on Monday considered ways to make it harder to discipline members of Congress, prompted by a rebuke of Majority Leader Tom DeLay that infuriated some GOP colleagues.
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Supporters of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay proposed a Republican rules change Tuesday that would protect the Texan's leadership position if he were to be indicted by a Texas grand jury that already charged three of his associates.
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House Republicans voted on Wednesday  to change their own rules to allow Tom DeLay keep his position  as majority leader even if he is indicted in Texas, where a  number of his associates have already been charged in  connection with illegal fund-raising activities.
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New rules prevent Tom DeLay from having to step down as majority leader if he is indicted in an investigation in Texas.
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House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, admonished twice in six days by his chamber&#39;s ethics committee, withstood calls on Thursday by rival Democrats and citizen groups that he step aside.
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Republicans in the US House of Representatives changed their rules so that Majority Leader Tom DeLay could stay in power if he&#39;s indicted by a Texas grand jury.
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House Republicans showed their loyalty to Majority Leader Tom DeLay yesterday, changing a party rule that would have cost him his leadership post if he were indicted by a Texas grand jury that has indicted three of his associates.
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House Republican leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday the indictment of close political associates in a Texas campaign finance investigation is regrettable, but he denied he&#39;s a target of prosecutors.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was unanimously rebuked by the ethics committee Wednesday for involving a federal agency in a Texas partisan matter and staging a fundraiser in a way that appeared to link access to the congressman with political donations.
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A state judge ruled Monday that the sign-up period should be reopened for the Nov. 2 election in Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Rodney Alexander infuriated Democrats by switching to the Republican Party minutes before the qualifying deadline.
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Washington -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and the Democrats&#39; minority leader, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, intensifying the rancor between the parties, swapped charges Friday over their ethical records in a dispute arising out of a case in
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Four years ago, the US Supreme Court picked a president rather than wait for the political process to play out. This time around, the president elected Nov. 2 may have a chance to change the
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WASHINGTON--Alaska Rep. Don Young voted for a change in Republican caucus rules that would allow Rep. Tom DeLay to keep his job as majority leader in the US House