Help Josh Marshall - will your congressman vote for Hastert?

By: Rob
Published On: 10/6/2006 9:00:00 AM

Josh wants to know, so let's get Drake, Wolf, Davis, and the rest to fess up.  And does George Allen support Hastert's leadership of the House?

We've got a small staff at TPM, four full-time employees including me. So perhaps you can help us with something. Over at Election Central, I've tasked Greg Sargent with finding me that elusive quarry -- the Republican member of Congress who will say on the record that he's going to vote for Denny Hastert for Speaker next January if the Republicans maintain their majority. We were working on this and, surprisingly, we just couldn't get anybody to get back to us.

So we've started a list in this post over at Election Central of different campaigns and congressional offices we've called. As you can see, the only member we've been able to get a comment out of was Rob Simmons (R-CT). And his comment was 'no comment'. So you can see it's pretty slim pickings. All the rest have refused to return calls. Gerlach in Pennsylvania. Sweeney in New York. The Count in Indiana. Nancy Johnson in Connecticut. No dice. None of them are returning calls.

So if you'd like to lend us a hand, you can call them and see if you can get an answer. We'll be adding to the list tomorrow.


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A Sign of the Times (PM - 10/6/2006 9:24:51 AM)
The political pros may be giving up on a GOP-led House.  Here's a story on the death of postal legislation.  It was written by veteran postal affairs correspondent Bill McAllister (formerly of the Washington Post and the Denver Post).  At the last minute, the big letter carriers' union (NALC) pulled out of the fragile coalition that would have altered how the Postal Service is regulated.

http://www.postcom.o...

Postal legislation that was more than a dozen years in the making died at 9 p.m. September 29.***The November elections will be critical to the bill’s fate in the lame-duck session. If the Democrats take control of the House that will put Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., in charge of House Government Reform Committee. His priorities for what a bill should contain are not the same as Davis, the lobbyists say.***




I Have a Diary up (Mark - 10/6/2006 2:07:35 PM)
that says Virgil thinks Denny is just fine.

Not that anyone is reading it or commenting on it.