| July 18, 2007 | - Former congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years,” said DeLay, “we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
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Raw Story
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| April 3, 2006 | - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) announced that he would not run for reelection to Congress. "I've never done anything in my political career," said DeLay, "for my own personal gain."
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Time
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| March 8, 2006 | -
Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) won the Republican
primary for his congressional seat.
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Capitol Hill Blue
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| February 2, 2006 | - Representative John Boehner (R., Ohio), who belongs to a male-only golf club, whose political-action committee took money from Jack Abramoff but did not return it after Abramoff was indicted, and who in 1995 handed out checks from tobacco-company lobbyists on the House floor, was elected via instant runoff voting to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader. The Republican Party, said Boehner, "must act swiftly to restore the trust between Congress and the American people." Boehner also said that he had "a very open relationship with lobbyists in town." "We are," said Representative Michael Oxley (R., Ohio), "somewhat tilting at windmills."
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The New York Times
Source 2:
Bloomberg.com
Source 3:
The Nation via Yahoo! News
Source 4:
Sign On San Diego
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| January 5, 2006 | - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges. The offices of thirty-six U.S. lawmakers, including Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt, Eric Cantor, and President George W. Bush announced that they would return money linked to Abramoff. “You can't have a corrupt lobbyist,” explained Newt Gingrich, “unless you have a corrupt member.” DeLay also insisted that he was an ethical person and announced that he would permanently step down as House Majority Leader.
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CNN.com
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11Alive.com
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| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative
Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.
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Reuters
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| November 4, 2005 | - Emails showed that in 2002 U.S. Representative Tom DeLay asked lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a charitable foundation.
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Bloomberg News
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| October 20, 2005 | - A warrant was issued for the arrest of Congressman
Tom DeLay, who turned himself in and was released on $10,000 bail.
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Houston Chronicle
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| September 28, 2005 | -
Tom DeLay stepped down from his post as House Majority Leader after being indicted for criminal conspiracy related to campaign fundraising. "This is not going to detract from the Republican agenda," said DeLay's spokesman. DeLay was soon after indicted on a separate charge of money laundering.
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CNN.com
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| April 8, 2005 | -
Republicans held a conference to discuss ways to reform the federal judiciary, which they say has “run amok.” Senator Tom Coburn's chief of staff said that “mass impeachment” of judges might be necessary, and Tom DeLay, who is under investigation for illegal fundraising, gave a pre-recorded speech entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.”
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New York Times
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| March 27, 2005 | - It was discovered that Tom DeLay permitted his brain-dead father to be taken off life support in 1988, even though his father lacked a living will.
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The Seattle Times
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| March 20, 2005 | - Schiavo's husband, who wants to let her die, wondered why Congress was expending so much energy on the case. “Why doesn't Congress worry about people not having health insurance?” he asked. “Or the budget? Let's talk about all the children who don't have homes.” Schiavo described House Majority leader Tom DeLay, who is leading the fight to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, as a “little slithering snake.”
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The Terri Schiavo Case
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| January 6, 2005 | -
Tom DeLay was still not indicted.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| November 17, 2004 | - The House Republican Conference changed its rules to allow majority leader Tom DeLay to maintain his leadership role if he is indicted.
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Bloomberg
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| October 7, 2004 | - House majority leader Tom DeLay was again rebuked by the House Ethics Committee for having "created an appearance that donors were being provided special access to you regarding" pending legislation.
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New York Times
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| October 1, 2004 | - Representative Tom DeLay was "admonished" by the House ethics committee for trying to bribe a colleague to change his vote on a bill.
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New York Times
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| February 16, 2004 | - A grand-jury investigation was under way in Texas into a political action committee controlled by House speaker Tom DeLay.
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New York Times
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| October 14, 2003 | -
Texas Republicans produced a very odd-looking congressional map that will probably give the party seven additional seats in Congress. "I'm a Texan trying to get things done," said Tom DeLay, who engineered the highly unusual redistricting.
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New York Times
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| July 31, 2003 | - In Jerusalem, U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay called himself an "Israeli at heart."
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New York Times
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| June 5, 2003 | - Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, said he expected the weapons to turn up eventually and pointed out that it took the FBI five years to catch Eric Rudolph. Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, blamed it all on Bill Clinton.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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| June 4, 2003 | -
Tom DeLay, the House Majority Leader, killed a Democratic attempt to extend a new tax credit to 6.5 million low-income families who were left out of President Bush's latest tax cut.
"There are a lot of things that are more important than that," DeLay said.
"To me, it's a little difficult to give tax relief to people that don't pay income tax."
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New York Times
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| August 13, 2002 | -
The Bush Administration warned foreign diplomats that their countries could lose all military aid unless they pledge never to turn over American soldiers to the International Criminal Court. A spokesman for Representative Tom DeLay, who wrote the provision of the antiterrorism law that authorizes such threats, said that “this is just an effective tool, and we have said numerous times that we have to do whatever it takes to protect our service members from this rogue court.” Vice President Dick Cheney told Iraqi opposition leaders that the United States was committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein and installing a democratic replacement, who would then be treated as a major ally.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The House Appropriations Committee passed a measure authorizing the President to use force to free any American detained by the new International Criminal Court, which Tom DeLay, the majority whip from Texas, called a “rump” and a “rogue” court.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Chen Shui-bian, president of Taiwan, visited Texas and received a nice gift from Rep. Tom DeLay: a new pair of eel-skin boots, embossed with the president's initials as well as the Texas and American flags, intertwined.
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