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Republican leaders have broken a promise they made to expose the shocking contents of memos exchanged among Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, says Manuel Miranda, the former GOP aide who is the whistle-blower at the center of the so-called Memogate scandal. Miranda tells Insight in an exclusive interview that both Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) broke clearly stated promises to expose collusion between top Democrats and special-interest groups seeking to thwart President George W. Bush's nominees to federal courts. "Sen. Hatch told me specifically, point blank, that if I resigned he could...

<p>The performance of the current Republican Congress has been disappointing, to say the least. But it would go from mediocre to awful if some of its Members succeed in undermining their one significant achievement -- last year's tax cuts.</p> <p>That's what is at stake this week as the House and Senate conferees reconcile the two chambers' budget resolutions for Fiscal Year 2005. Some Republicans want to join Democrats in making it more difficult to pass new tax cuts or to make the existing Bush tax cuts permanent. Last week, the House shied away from applying something called pay-as-you-go budget rules, or "paygo," to its budget resolution. But the idea has some GOP support, as a 209-209 procedural vote on paygo Tuesday showed.</p>

Hatch and Frist Fire Whistle-blower Posted March 30, 2004 By John M. Powers GOP scapegoat Miranda has become a hero to conservative groups. Republican leaders have broken a promise they made to expose the shocking contents of memos exchanged among Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, says Manuel Miranda, the former GOP aide who is the whistle-blower at the center of the so-called Memogate scandal. Miranda tells Insight in an exclusive interview that both Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) broke clearly stated promises to expose collusion between top Democrats and special-interest groups seeking...