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Thank you. Deacon Jones said I would cry. You bet your life I'm going to cry. You bet your life I'm going to cry. You bet your life, I will. That's my boy. That's my boy right there. It ain't this in that. It's that [son]. Thank God. What a great day. What a great day. I want to thank the committee, the selection committee, the ones who put me up here, some men and women that watched my career over those 20 seasons and said he should be here and he should be here now. Thank you, guys, and...

Is Virginia Rep. Thomas M. Davis, a fixture in Washington area politics for two decades, casting his eyes on greener pastures? Davis, a Fairfax County Republican who is considered one of the top strategists in the House GOP caucus, is a political junkie whose love for the minutiae of elections is surpassed only by his obsession with baseball statistics. So most people have assumed he'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from his job as chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. But several sources in both parties in Virginia and on Capitol Hill said they are hearing...

It may be just a coincidence that former Washington Redskins star Darrell Green acts like a member of Congress, with a battery of aides helping him manage his busy schedule, but it’s not surprising that a lot of people would like to have him on their team. As he did on the football field before retiring last year, Green is keeping his options open. When Republicans held their recent retreat at The Greenbriar resort in West Virginia, the future Hall of Famer was invited to give a pep talk on what he called “the fundamental aspects of the Republican charter.”...