Bruce Oppenheimer
Bruce Oppenheimer
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Suppose you're on some committee - say the Transportation Committee, and a major transportation reauthorization bill is in the works. If you're managing the bill, you're going to make sure that the speaker's, majority leader's and whip's districts are treated pretty well.
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They all want to differentiate themselves in positive ways.
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Concerns about ethics tend to be episodic, and those episodes are stimulated when there are horror strikes. And, of course, Tennessee Waltz was a real horror story.
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My sense is that he's said what he's going to say about his family and feels that there's no need to bring further attention to them.