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Illinois Lawmakers Aim to Get Students to Take a Load Off
Illinois students need to lighten up.
In the state with the nation's busiest death row and an increasing number of post-conviction DNA exonerations, legislators are urging the governor to investigate the causes of mistaken convictions.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), who recently sent supporters a mass e-mail proclaiming his innocence of ethical transgressions, spoke out Tuesday on conservative talk radio shows.
Tom DeLay, in a written statement, says he broke no House rules in accepting trips abroad and implores supporters to accept his version of what he calls "the real story."
Tom DeLay, under fire for alleged ethics violations, accused liberal Democrats and the media of giving him a hard time in a keynote speech Saturday at the National Rifle Association's annual convention.
LOCKHART, Tex. -- On a sunny, cloudless day Charles L. Barr walked the wilds of Central Texas in search of public enemy No. 1: the red imported fire ant.
A woman who has known escaped killer Randolph Dial since she taught him in high school knew that he was hiding in East Texas with the prison warden's wife he had abducted in 1994. But she said she was too afraid to help.
In the first three months of this year, DeLay's personal campaign committee took in $438,235, including $100,000 he borrowed personally for his campaign.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) apologized yesterday for heated comments he made about possible retribution against federal judges for their handling of the Terri Schiavo case, but declined to say whether he favors impeaching those judges.
Rep. Joe Barton has evolved over the past 20 years from a maverick conservative willing to cast lonely, defiant votes into a central political figure who cuts deals and raises millions of dollars for his colleagues and who marshaled a small army of lobbyists to secure for himself a powerful chairmanship.
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