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Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. has found himself in a wide range of settings across church and state since he unveiled his "Black Contract With America on Moral Values." One day, the conservative minister is on stage with some of the nation's top African-American thought leaders at an Atlanta church. Less than two weeks later, he's at a U.S. Senate office building in Washington addressing a room filled predominantly with white evangelical leaders. Despite criticism from some African-American ministers that he's the black equivalent of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Jackson says he is comfortable in both places. As he...

WASHINGTON - Years ago, when Democrats controlled Congress, Republicans vowed they would run things differently if voters would just give them the chance. Such as the night in October 1987, when House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas held a floor vote on a tax bill open for several minutes until fellow Texan Jim Chapman was persuaded to switch and give Democrats a one-vote win. The tactic was "the most grievous insult inflicted on Republicans in my time in the House," complained Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking then as chairman of the House Republican Conference. Charges of hypocrisy rang out 16...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 1994 revolution that gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives produced a seismic shift in federal spending, moving tens of billions of dollars from Democratic to GOP districts, an Associated Press analysis shows.</p> <p>Rather than pork barrel projects for new GOP districts, the change was driven mostly by Republican policies that moved spending from poor rural and urban areas to the more affluent suburbs and GOP-leaning farm country, the computer analysis showed.</p>