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Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff made two visits to the White House during the Bush administration, according to Secret Service logs released Wednesday under a court [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders have quietly scaled back their plan to limit the political influence of lobbyists, dropping proposed requirements that lobbyists disclose which lawmakers and [...]

Byline: Andrea Stone and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom DeLay, already forced to step down as majority leader in the House of Representatives and touched by a widening lobbying [...]

Byline: Andrea Stone and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom DeLay, already forced to step down as majority leader in the House of Representatives and brushed by a widening lobbying [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Wednesday to force greater disclosure of how lobbyists sway lawmakers, but stopped short of banning some major tools of the influence trade. [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday voted down a proposal to create an independent office to investigate alleged ethics violations as it struggled to revive a bill [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard Rep. Tom DeLay's lawyer had one primary wish Wednesday when he went before a Texas appeals court deliberating whether to reinstate a conspiracy charge against his client: [...]

Byline: Joan Biskupic and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- The story of how Texas' congressional map was redrawn in 2003 to favor Republicans is wrapped in partisan politics, personal vendettas and [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- The Small Business Administration, criticized for its slow pace in making disaster loans to victims of Hurricane Katrina, is asking Congress for an additional $1.1 [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- The Small Business Administration, criticized for its slow pace in making disaster loans to victims of Hurricane Katrina, is asking Congress for an additional $1.1 [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- Tainted by a lobbying and corruption scandal, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday picked a leader who has called for reform but [...]

Byline: Rick Jervis, Peter Johnson and Jim Drinkard BAGHDAD -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured Sunday when a bomb blew up near the [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard and David Jackson WASHINGTON -- President Bush will ask Congress for $1.5 billion to bolster New Orleans levees against future storms like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard and Oren Dorell WASHINGTON -- The federal government will strengthen New Orleans levees to withstand any future storm like the one that devastated the city more than [...]

Byline: Matt Kelley and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- A San Diego businessman under investigation in the bribery case of former congressman Randy 'Duke' Cunningham is a well-known GOP fundraiser whose [...]

Byline: Paul Leavitt and Jim Drinkard Correction ran 11/15/2005: An item on Page 8A Friday misstated the city in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard and Kathy Kiely WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday that he was 'unduly restrictive' when he promised the Senate 15 years ago to remove [...]

Byline: Matt Kelley and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- It took more than a decade for Mitchell Wade to turn his company, MZM Inc., from a small-time Pentagon consulting firm into [...]

Byline: Matt Kelley and Jim Drinkard WASHINGTON -- Companies that wanted a piece of the billions of dollars of classified business done by the Pentagon had good reason to make [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard On the Saturday after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, a federal employee swooped into a Guitar Center store in Atlanta and snapped up audio mixers, wireless [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is a man of relatively modest means compared with many of the nine sitting justices. Alito's 2004 financial disclosure report shows total [...]

Byline: Jim Drinkard, Kathy Kiely and Mark Memmott WASHINGTON -- Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court followed a steady downhill path from the day President Bush announced his choice [...]