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This Week in Congress Congressional floor Schedule
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Hillary Watch It getting to look more and more like a sure thing every day. The Clintons were out house hunting in Westchester Co. New York over the weekend. After inspecting a 1.7 million-dollar estate, they were off to Long Island to attend a fund-raiser for Hillary and other Democratic candidates, And to spend the night at the home of filmmaker Steven Spielberg,
According to an Associated Press article the President was quoted as saying the following: "If you want somebody who has thought about this stuff and worked hard and always tried to do it for other people for 30 years, who has more heart, more intelligence, more ability and more commitment than any person I have ever known, ... then you ought to send her to the Senate and give her a chance to serve." Crane in Fight for Ways and Means Chair With Bill Archer of Texas retiring from congress after this term Illinois conservative Phil Crane should be a shoe in to get the powerful position as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Not so according to an article in the Chicago Tribune this week. According to the Tribune Crane has done little fund-raising for the Republicans and has not lobbied for the position. On the other hand Rep. Bill Thomas of California is doing just the opposite. He has raised over $500,000 for the GOP this year and is working the committee hard for support. The senior member rarely looses out in these matters, but this one bares watching. Worse than the Rosenbergs Norta Trulock, the former Deputy Director of Intelligence for the Department of Energy on This Week Sunday, states the Chinese spying scandal may turn out to be worse for the United Stated than the Rosenberg spy case that gave the Soviet Union the atomic bomb. Trulock, a Clinton administration appointee, who voted for the President twice, resigned after he felt the administration blocked every effort he made to try and get to the bottom of the case. For complete details of the Chinese spying case, read the Cox report: direct link is at the bottom of the page. Editors Note: Link as been moved to links page, and may be removed if no longer active.
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