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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi traded charges over who is more unethical yesterday as Congress prepared to adjourn for the year and leaders hoped to pass a $388 billion spending bill and possibly the intelligence overhaul measure today. Congress must pass the spending bill before leaving town, while the intelligence bill — though it would be a huge accomplishment — is not a must. With some House negotiators insisting on inclusion of immigration provisions stemming from the September 11 commission report, House and Senate negotiators remained stalemated last night.

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Stop the presses Exciting news for Ann Coulter fans: Her editor at Crown Publishers says that they are in deep consultation with the wacky winger about correcting at least one atrocious slander in her bestselling book of that title. Doug Pepper of Crown told me that they are examining the accuracy of her charge that those liberal elitists at the New York Times didn't give NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt's death front-page coverage until two days after the crash that killed him. "I'm talking to Ann about this," he said, adding that "I don't know if it's an actual error." In...