Posted on 08/18/2006 11:52:42 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Chairman Deborah Pryce first came to the United States House of Representatives in 1993 and has since established herself as a strong leader who has earned the respect of members on both sides of the aisle. Pryce was elected by her colleagues to serve as the Chairman of the House Republican Conference, which makes her the fourth-highest ranking member and the highest ranking Republican woman ever in the House of Representatives.
The House Republican Conference is the organizational vehicle for all Republican Members of the House and their staff. The Conference hosts periodic meetings of House Republicans and is the primary vehicle for communicating the party’s message to Members. As Chairman, Pryce directs the day-to-day operations of the Conference office and staff.
In addition to her leadership role as Republican Conference Chairman, Congresswoman Pryce serves on the House Committee on Financial Services. She returned to the committee after spending the past ten years on the House Rules Committee. The Committee has jurisdiction over the Federal Reserve, U.S. monetary policy, financial services technology issues, currency and coinage, and economic growth. Pryce is the fourth-ranking Republican on the Financial Services committee and also serves as Chairman of the Domestic and International Monetary Policy Subcommittee.
Pryce also holds the title of Deputy Whip. In this role she is responsible to gauge the support of fellow Republicans for legislation on the House floor and work with other members of leadership to shape strategy on issues. Pryce’s background as a prosecutor and judge and her reputation as a consensus builder have served her well in all of these leadership roles and have earned her the title of “Peacemaker.”
As co-chair of the House Cancer Caucus, Congresswoman Pryce is a key leader in the effort to defeat this terrible disease. She coauthored a bill which will help cancer patients in rural areas better access medical services through the use of “patient navigators,” individuals who help patients work their way through the health care system. Pryce also secured access for seniors to life-saving oral cancer drugs in the new Medicare law.
As a former prosecutor and judge, Congresswoman Pryce has championed the rights of crime victims in Congress. She led the charge to pass legislation that protects victims of violent crime by using DNA technology to keep criminals off our streets and eliminate the backlog of untested DNA files obtained at rape scenes. DNA technology may offer the best chance to close a painful chapter in the lives of victims and ensure that offenders are put and stay behind bars.
Congresswoman Pryce is a graduate of Ohio State University and Capital University Law School. She is a member of the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2001 for her outstanding achievements in public service. Pryce lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio with her daughter Mia. She enjoys reading and is an avid skier.
http://www.gop.gov/chairman.asp
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"What are the futures markets saying about the November election? (if they are taking contracts on politics this year)"
Tradesports.com has a proposition "GOP Controls Senate", and the contract is bid at $81.10. That means if you purchase the contract and the GOP retains control your contract is worth $100. To look at it another way, of those putting their money where their opinions are, the feeling is that there is an 81.1% chance of continued Republican control.
On the House side, however, the bid for a "GOP Control" contract for $44.70. Which means the money players, as of today, think there is a 44.7% chance of continued Republican control.
You do realize that you have to be a member of the Republican House of Representatives Caucus to Chair GOP.gov which is the website of the Republican House Caucus?
I don't understand how this man who is not a Rep could be listed anywhere.
Elections tend to turn on very simple issues. The issues this year are the same issues of the past two election cycles: the war on terror, and the economy. If these two issues can be framed in the way that Tyrrell frames them here, the Democrats will be sorely disappointed on Nov. 8th.
I just copied.
He may be the head of something in D.C. but not the Conference (Caucus) site of the House Republicans.
The fact that Bush and Congressional Republicans are poor communicators and afraid of pissing off folks, continues to be a serious problem. The media doesn't help matters of course. But its up to Bush and the GOP Congress to use the Bully Pulpit of power to spread their message to the people. If that means going over the heads of the media and appealing directly to the people, so be it.
Yes, depends a lot on world events between now and polling day too.
From Where, Calp?
You pay a 81.5 cents to win a dollar if the GOP keeps the Senate. You pay 44.1 cents and win a dollar if the GOP holds the House. IOW the House odds are longer per tradesports.
Then I missread his interview:
http://boifromtroy.com/?p=3291
LCR’s Robert J. Kabel Elected DC GOP Chair
Excerpt:
The DC GOP elected Robert J. Kabel, a member of Log Cabin Republicans, its Chairman. he is the first gay or lesbian elected to Chair a State Republican Party ever
I agree with you 100%
The other key is that conservatives have to get out & vote! I'm not sure why this is the biggest obstacle.
Bush can be faulted for not being forceful in driving home to the American people the big picture of Saddam's weapons program. And it may ultimately be his undoing. Some who seem to be in a position to know contend that Saddam's main R&D program on nuclear weapons was located in Libya. When Qaddafi turned over the nuclear material to the US, he was turning over the joint-venture he had with Saddam. Remember, international intelligence agencies (not simply our own feckless CIA) were saying back in 2002 that Saddam was probably one to two years away from having nuclear weapons.
Then there was this:
Evidence that Saddam frantically scrapped WMD hardware
Revelations that Saddam moved some of his WMDs and hardware out of the country were further confirmed by Demetrius Perricos, acting chairman of UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), who disclosed that his inspectors had been tracking shipments of illicit Iraqi WMD components around the world.
The Associated Press announced that UNMOVIC inspectors have found dozens of engines from banned al-Samoud 2 (SA2) missiles, which were shipped out of Iraq as "scrap metal."
UNMOVIC agents found 20 SA-2 engines in Jordan, along with a great deal of other WMD materials. Officials discovered an identical engine in a Rotterdam port in the Netherlands and believe as many as a dozen extra SA-2 missile engines alone have been transported out of Iraq and remain unaccounted for.
Besides the SA-2 engines, inspectors also found Iraqi "dual use" technology in Jordan, items purportedly employed in civilian affairs that can be used to create or enhance deadly weapons systems. The New York Times noted that among those items were "fermenters, a freeze drier, distillation columns, parts of missiles and a reactor vessel - all tools suitable for making biological or chemical weapons."
UN spokesman Ewen Buchanan put the threat of "dual use" technology into perspective. "You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter," Buchanan said. "You can also use it to breed anthrax."
Before the war, Saddam's regime cast its possession of "dual use" materials in the most innocent light, a ruse familiar to students of the Cold War. UNMOVIC wisely rejected his sunny assessment.
As Reuter's reported...”’A number of sites which contained dual-use equipment that was previously monitored by UN inspectors has [sic.] been systematically taken apart,’ said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the New York-based inspectors. ‘The question this raises is what happened to equipment known to have been there. Where is it now? It's a concern,’ Buchanan asked.”
“...The report said the U.N. inspectors also found papers showing illegal contracts by Iraq for a missile guidance system, laser ring gyroscopes and a variety of production and testing equipment not previously disclosed.”
Many of the “dual use” components UNMOVIC found in foreign ports had been previous tagged by UN inspectors in Iraq before the war. And transfers had taking place rapidly. During his presentation, Perricos showed the UN Security Council a picture of a fully developed missile site in May 2002 that had been entirely torn down by February of 2003.
Perricos' June 9, 2004, UN testimony was made all the more credible by the fact that he is hardly a neo-con stalwart. USA Today described his mindset just three months ago: "Demetrius Perricos, acting head of the United Nations weapons inspection program, can't disguise his satisfaction that almost a year after the invasion of Iraq, U.S. inspectors have found the same thing that their much-maligned UN counterparts did before the war: no banned weapons." Today, Perricos' smile has disappeared.
All these revelations came during a closed meeting of the UN Security Council held on June 9, 2004. However, the investigations are not new. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) launched its own probe into Iraqi WMD transfers a full six months previous to the UNMOVIC report when a Dutch scrap metal company discovered five pounds of yellowcake uranium ore in Rotterdam, according to an April 14, 2004, news report in the Washington Post.
The sample was shipped from Jordan but Jordanian officials said the metal originated in Iraq. (Perhaps this is the yellowcake that atomic sleuth Joe Wilson insisted Iraq never purchased from Niger...the purchase of which had subsequently been re-confirmed by the London Financial Times). Even the once skeptical IAEA Director Mohammed El Baradei warned that evidence of Saddam's WMDs was being shipped abroad.
Well-said.
The Dim strategy will ensure that only thing that will come home to America will be Jihad.
The border is his primary failure, but the failure to respond is significant in where we now are. Ted Kennedy had actually been on Hannity radio for a few minutes a few years ago and got away with saying - he told us we would find nuclear weapons. Sean did not challenge that.
Tyrrell has no more knowledge of, or insight into, electoral politics than any other moderately well-informed person. He's also a blowhard, and so predictable.
He did, however, write a very good book on the conservative movement: "The Conservative Crack-Up." Written about 15 years ago, but still as relevant and instructive as ever.
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