Pope DeLay Still Wants to be a Cardinal

Don"t miss a key line at the end of Tom DeLay"s letter to Speaker Hastert:

<blockquote>Dear Mr. Speaker,<br>
I am writing to inform you of my decision to permanently step aside as majority leader...<br>
I will continue to serve my constituents and seek re-election ...while I work to clear my name of the baseless charges leveled against me. &nbsp;<strong>I will also be reclaiming my seat on the Appropriations Committee</strong> when the second session of the 109th Congress convenes later this month.</blockquote><p>
Because he was elected in 1984, DeLay would rank sixth on the Appropriations Committee. He would be in a position to claim the chairmanship of the VA/HUD subcommittee (the subcommittee chairs are known as cardinals), one of the more powerful subcommittees for doling out pork to allies or denying it to enemies. Will Rep. James Walsh of Syracuse, New York, who currently holds that chair, quietly step aside for his master’s return?

[UPDATE: I botched something here, because I was looking at the subcommittee lists from the 2004 Almanac of American Politics (I guess a true geek has a current edition of the Almanac at home and at the office): the subcommittee structure was changed in this Congress, and the number of  subcommittees cut from 13 to ten. This reorganization was actually engineered by DeLay himself, in order to get NASA (Texas pork) out of the VA/HUD/Independent Agencies subcommittee where it had to compete with veterans’ funding. Sam Rosenfeld covered this story <a href="<A href=’http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=9370">thoroughly’>http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=9370">thoroughly back in March.</a> It’s quite a measure of his power at his peak that he was able to strip three appropriations subcommittee chairs of their jurisdictions without provoking a backlash! But it makes it less clear which jurisdiction he would try to reclaim along with his committee seat.)

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