(Guest blogged by Logan Murphy)

We reported on the FBI raid on the home of California Congressman John Doolittle last Friday and now, according to the AP, he has now decided to give up his seat on the House Appropriations Committee. Will he go the way of Bob Ney? Let's hope so. For more on Doolittle's follies, check out Nate's latest post.

UPDATE: Howie has a different take on this story, evidently Doolittle was allowed to resign his seat.

Huff Post: The vast majority of American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this year. Who says so? Congressman John Murtha says so, and he explains his plan to make that happen to correspondent Mike Wallace.

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John spoke at length to Mike tonight and felt it was his responsibility to speak out against the war in Iraq and let people know why he is doing so. I was looking to see if the RNC had Jean Schmidt ready to give a response to his segment tonight, but alas-rumor has it that she was too busy sifting through her new marriage proposals to make so they ditched the idea.

Murtha: He’s trying to fight this war with rhetoric," Murtha responds. "Iraq is not where the center of terrorism is. So when he says we’re fighting terrorism over there, we’re inciting terrorism over there.--- He said before there’s weapons of mass destruction. He said there’s an al Qaeda connection. There’s many things he said turned out not to be true. So why would I believe him...

CBS has the full video up as well as a complete transcript from the show The Moderate Voice has a take on the Swiftboating of Murtha.

I am asking you to join me in demanding a real discussion of the war in Iraq from the U.S. House of Representatives."
-- Congressman John Murtha (PA-12) Go to the site and sign up.

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Dingell's Holiday Jingle

Congressman John D. Dingell (MI-15) recited the following poem on the floor of the US House of Representatives.

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"Twas the week before Christmas and all through the House. No bills were passed ‘bout which Fox News could grouse; Tax cuts for the wealthy were passed with great cheer, So vacations in St. Barts soon would be near...read on

Congressman John Conyers Jr. leads the charge to try and get answers from the White House about The secret Downing Street memo .

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Read the press release.

Will the White House address this issue?

Congressman John Conyers is asking for signatures: Click here

AmericaBlog: This is important. It's also really good. Read the congressman's letter he posted on DailyKos about the Downing Street Memo, then go to Conyers' Web site and sign the letter he's sending to Bush. I'm usually not one for sign-ons, but this is good - it could actually have some impact.