Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who accompanied President Bush, not shown, during a visit to the Samuel J. Green charter school in New Orleans, La., waits for the president to speak, Thursday, March 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Posted on 03/06/2007 6:23:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Under pressure from House Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) may be backing away from a plan to place Rep. William J. Jefferson on the Homeland Security Committee.
“It’s being considered,” a Democratic aide acknowledged Monday.
Jefferson, D-La., who is the subject of a federal bribery investigation, was tapped last month by Pelosi to serve on the panel because it oversees much of the recovery effort in his New Orleans district.
The House Democratic Caucus approved the appointment last week. Only a procedural vote on the House floor was needed to make him an official member of the committee.
But Republicans objected and accused Pelosi, D-Calif., of going back on her campaign promise to clean up corruption in Congress. They threatened to force a roll call vote, which some Democrats feared would put them in an embarrassing position.
When asked when the Jefferson motion might be brought up, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., would say only that the matter is “pending.”
Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who accompanied President Bush, not shown, during a visit to the Samuel J. Green charter school in New Orleans, La., waits for the president to speak, Thursday, March 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who accompanied President Bush, not shown, during a visit to the Samuel J. Green charter school in New Orleans, La., greets students, Thursday, March 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Poor Nancy....she is finding how hard it is to "lead"...
She is having to "back off" so many, many of her promises...
Also..besides this case...she has a revolt brewing because the House defense appropriations bill doesn't call for a date certain withdrawal from Iraq....LOL
How are you liking it now, NANCE????
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...no kidding....in fact, the Calif liberal is actually acting like the conservative trying to shut Murtha up.. I wonder how she likes being the "less liberal" of the bunch
That picture reminds me of the one where Eleanor Roosevelt was visiting one of the Japanese internment camps in AZ during the war.
OMG! The Republicans grew a pair? What happened, I wonder, donations down?
If I was the minority leader in the house, I would go through and throw out every copy of the NY Times and Washington Post I could find and make it clear if no money for re-election if they're going to be metropublicans.
The embarrassing position being that they would have to take a position.
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