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On a Jay Walk
Will AG Gonzales suggest who leaked? Also: Jim Ryun as stalking horse. John Boehner cracks the whips.
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WHIPPED INTO SHAPE
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There remains talk that Rep.
Roy Blunt
is not long
for the House Whip post, though his exit might not occur until
after the 2006 election. Look for some shakeup in Blunt’s deputy
whip contingent in the short-term. It’s expected that both newly
elected House Majority Leader
John Boehner
and
members of the Republican House Study Committee will have a say in
who steps into some of those positions for this session of the
House.
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The talk of changes took on greater volume after Boehner and Blunt held a long, private meeting — no staff allowed — in Blunt’s Capitol office on Friday morning. Blunt, according to a leadership staffer, did not reveal what was discussed.
Boehner’s staff is already mulling just what he needs to do to cement his position over the next eight months moving toward election day in November. “We want him to be solid as leader, with no risk of challenges by the old guard,” says a Boehner staffer. “We want him to be leader for some time. He’ll take care of working with the White House on the policies that will help that. We’ll focus on the politics of the conference.”
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