Democrats Won’t Push Jefferson

By John Bresnahan
Roll Call Staff

May 4, 2006, 12 a.m.

House Democrats will not publicly call on Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) to leave office, despite a guilty plea in federal court on Tuesday by Vernon Jackson, a Kentucky businessman who allegedly paid Jefferson and his family more than $450,000 in bribes.

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