Democrats Want Probe By Larry Lipman | Thursday, March 15, 2007 All nine of Florida’s congressional Democrats have called for a special task force to review the contested election in the 13th Congressional District. […] The House has agreed to seat Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican, whom Florida election officials declared the winner by 368…
According to early returns today (11:47 a.m. ET) the overwhelming majority of respondents to CSPAN’s CapitalNews (non-scientific) online poll think that Karl Rove and Harriet Meirs should be subpoened to testify about the firing of U.S. attorneys, which is alleged to have been a partisan move by the Bush Administration. (Updates on Polling Numbers or…
Reuters and CBS | Posted March 15, 2007 Two more Republican congressmen called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s replacement on Thursday. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) “suggested that it would be helpful to have an attorney general that Congress could have more confidence in,” his spokesman said. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said, “Even for Republicans this…
By MATT APUZZO The Associated Press Friday, March 16, 2007 WASHINGTON — Valerie Plame, the CIA operative at the heart of a political scandal, told Congress Friday that senior officials at the White House and State Department “carelessly and recklessly” blew her cover to discredit her diplomat-husband. Plame, whose 2003 outing triggered a federal investigation,…
