[NormsRevenge]

slow night. ;-)

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) walks from a meeting between Congressional leaders, senators and U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) at the White House in Washington December 6, 2004. U.S. lawmakers said on Monday they reached a deal to end a month-long standoff on legislation overhauling the nation's spy agencies, settling a dispute over the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s power under the post-September 11, 2001 reforms. REUTERS/Jason Reed

[Calusa]

Hastert believes House rules say time is up on Hefley's tenure on the committee, Feehery said. That interpretation of the rules is likely to be disputed, but in any case the speaker can install a new chairman at his discretion.

I suspect this is th AP's prevaricating way of saying that someone they support has reached a term limit and their tenure as committee chair has expired. But they wanna blow it up into some kind of conspiracy. The AP goons and Nancy Palooza can take solace, that's how their 'bud' Arlen Spector got his current job.