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DeLay Probe Faces Deadlock

By John Bresnahan and Damon Chappie
Roll Call Staff
Sept. 15, 2004, Midnight

In an “option of last resort” that has never been used before, leaders of the House ethics committee — apparently unable to agree on how to handle a complaint against Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) — have thrown to the full panel the decision on whether to move to an official investigation of the Texas Republican.

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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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