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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s decision last week upholding the current congressional redistricting plan in Texas wouldn’t have helped four former colleagues of Texas Rep. Chet Edwards, the only Democrat to survive the state GOP’s targeted redistricting in 2003. But the high court’s ruling so far hasn’t slowed Edwards, who …

“A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it adds up to real money.” The late Senator Everett Dirksen commenting on Washington’s propensity to speak of large sums as if they’re not large at all. And he was talking about it back in the 1960s! A billion was a big …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Controversy Continues It was a story that consumed official Washington for three years and was fanned by media reports. But a Washington Post editorial today says the revelation that Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not a partisan gunslinger, was the original …