- Making News: Will Boehner and the GOP Get Tough on Lobbying?
Republicans in Congress have chosen Ohio's John Boehner to replace Tom DeLay of Texas as their leader, but the shadow of Jack Abramoff still hangs over the majority party. Jeffrey Birnbaum, author of The Money Men: The Real Story of Fundraising's Influence on Political Power in America, writes the "K Street Confidential" column for the Washington Post. - Reporter's Notebook: Study Shows Many Supersized Ex-NFL Players Die Young
This year's National Football League season began with the death of a San Francisco 49er. At 315 pounds, 23 year-old Thomas Herrion collapsed and died in the locker room. An autopsy showed that his heart was scarred and oversized and that one artery was blocked. In Sunday's Super Bowl, fans will see some of the heaviest athletes this side of Japanese Sumo wrestling. John Lindsay is a sports reporter who worked on a recent study of obesity in football for Scripps Howard News.
Office of the House Majority Leader
Birnbaum's article on 'earmarking'
2006 State of the Union: Advanced Energy Initiative
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
Energy Emergency Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (S 1735)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Football League (NFL)
National Lung, Heart and Blood Institute
Scripps Howard News Service article, 'Supersized in the NFL'