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'Nice guy' Republican is leaving Congress
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Dec 02, 2008 05:50pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter, who often are at odds, agree on this: Retiring Rep. Jim McCrery, R-Shreveport, is one of the nicest congressional members.
But McCrery, 58, who was on his way to becoming chairman in 2007 of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee until voters knocked his Republican Party out of the majority, can be a tough advocate.
Landrieu said she'll never forget meeting with a federal bureaucrat who was not willing to support a technology center in McCrery's northern Louisiana congressional district.
McCrery, known as Gentleman Jim, "was very determined, and left no uncertainty about how he felt," Landrieu said. "For once, I was just happy to keep quiet and let Jim do all the talking."
McCrery, who says he is at peace with losing out on one of the most powerful jobs on Capitol Hill, said he is flattered that so many people use the same description to describe him: "a truly nice guy." But he said that he can sometimes transgress.
As an example, he talks about the time he almost broke his hand banging it on a table in a House committee room as he argued with a fellow Republican about whether to bring up welfare reform legislation in 1996. |
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