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DeLay_Fact_Sheet.appHeader = "Fact file|Rep. Tom DeLay: Political milestones";
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DeLay_Fact_Sheet[i-1].body = "-Elected to represent the 22nd District of Texas in Congress in 1984.<br>-Elected Majority Whip in 1994.<br>-Elected Majority leader (unopposed) in 2002.";

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DeLay_Fact_Sheet[i-1].body = "-DeLay was part of a group that tried, but failed, to oust House Speaker Newt Gingrich.<br>-DeLay attacked the Electronics Industries Alliance for hiring a former Democratic congressman as its president.<br>-House ethics committee rebukes DeLay for action against Electronics Industries Alliance.<br>-House ethics committee admonishes DeLay for offering to support the House candidacy of Michigan Republican Rep. Nick Smith&#146;s son in return for the lawmaker&#146;s vote for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.<br>-House ethics committee said DeLay created the appearance of linking political donations to a legislative favor.<br>-DeLay also chastised for seeking the Federal Aviation Administration&#146;s intervention in a Texas political dispute.";

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DeLay_Fact_Sheet[i-1].body = "-January 2005: House Republicans reverse a controversial rule passed in November 2004 that would have allowed DeLay to keep his leadership post if he were indicted.<br>-April 2005: House Republicans scrap controversial new ethics committee rules passed earlier in the year that would have made it harder to proceed with an ethics investigation. Democrats charged the rules were meant to protect DeLay.";

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DeLay_Fact_Sheet[i-1].body = "-Grand jurors in Texas indict three DeLay associates in an investigation of alleged illegal corporate contributions to a political action committee associated with him.<br>-Democrats question DeLay&#146;s relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.<br>-DeLay faces allegations that lobbyist paid for his overseas travel.<br>-Two DeLay associates are indicted on additional felony charges of violating Texas election law and criminal conspiracy to violate election law for their role in 2002 legislative races.<br>-Indicted by a Texas grand jury on one count of criminal conspiracy.";

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