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DeLay's Golf Junket

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) has sponsored a change in House ethics rules to allow members of Congress to take free trips to charity events. One such event is the spring excursion sponsored by DeLay's own foundation for the benefit of foster children. NPR's Peter Overby reports that the rule change has critics crying "foul."

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Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994.

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