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House Republicans say they haven't opened and don't plan any new investigations of federal judges after Terri Schiavo's death despite Majority Leader Tom DeLay's promise to examine the judiciary's conduct. Some of the issues raised by DeLay were being examined by Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., before the embattled Texas Republican's recent barrage against federal judges over their handling of Schiavo's case. Sensenbrenner also has been looking for a long time at the idea of increasing Congress' oversight of judicial discipline. He told a judicial conference last year that Congress "will begin assessing whether the disciplinary authority delegated to...