Here's a "beaut":
Duncan Hunter, in all probability will end up going to jail, implicated in the same bribery crimes that brought down Randy Cunningham.
Hunter has blocked the FBI investigation into his illegal activities, but now he is losing his committee chairmanship. To shore himself up, he has voiced an interest in running for the office of POTUS, and he has now used his waning days in power to increase his visibility.
It will be interesting to watch what the current congressional committee chairmen say and do, before the end of this congressional session.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/...ca/US_Iraq.php
Republican lawmaker wants U.S. to push for improvements in Iraqi forces to stabilize Iraq
The Associated Press
The United States should push for available and trained Iraqi security forces to be sent to the front lines of the fight to stabilize the embattled country, a top Republican lawmaker on military matters said Monday.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter said Monday.
"We need to saddle those up and deploy them to the fight" in dangerous areas, primarily in Baghdad, said Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives.
In an interview, Hunter told The Associated Press that He took a different tack from Sen. John McCain, a front-running 2008 presidential hopeful who has urged that additional U.S. troops be sent there. Hunter has been considering whether to campaign for the Republicans' 2008 nomination.
Monday's statements continued an Iraq war policy debate that has been intensifying before and since this month's congressional elections that saw Democrats retake from the Republicans control of both the House and Senate.
Also on Monday, Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat who will head one of the most powerful House committees when the Democrats take over on Jan. 4, pushed again his argument that the military draft should be reinstated.
Rangel, incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had said Sunday, "There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft."
In a speech Monday at Baruch College, he said he wants to hold hearings into current troop levels and future plans for Iraq and other potential conflict regions......
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Quote:
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/expo...reditcard.html
March 10, 2005
A Hill of credit-card debt
By Josephine Hearn
In general, members of Congress were much less likely to have credit-card debt than the average American. About 51 million households carry credit-card debt at an average balance of nearly $12,000, according to cardweb.com. Only 10 percent of House members had similar debt.
The lawmaker reporting the highest credit-card debt was Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who noted that in 2003 he had between $80,000 and $175,000 spread across seven credit cards. <b>Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, listed five accounts with a total of $75,000 to $250,000 in debt......</b>
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<b>I wonder if Duncan Hunter sold his share of "the cabin"? Or......??
Quite a "pay down" of his debt....on his salary, in less than two years.....
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It is "our business".....when it comes to the personal financial dealings of the chair of a powerful congressional committee....especially when one prominent congressman associated with Hunter has already pleaded guilty to bribe taking in exchange for influencing DOD procurement.
I suspect that some committee chairmen will behave like drowing rats on a sinking ship.....all at our expense....as they attempt to cover the evidence of their corruption before it can be examined by the incoming congress, in open hearings, via the public testimony of subpoenaed witnesses. That is the change that many of us voted for.