DeLay's Week to Reassert Command
5th Sep 2005, 14:45 GMT
When Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) hustled onto the House floor Wednesday night, he knew that he was about five votes short of the number needed to pass a trade agreement that had become the toughest bill of the year for the Republican leadership.
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