As for what Tom Delay has done as a congressman....

[whistle]

...here's a nice biy of self-inerest profit motivated, greedy grubbing corruption:

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Conservative Con: Tom DeLay Denies His Corruption Regarding Mariana Islands Forced Prostitution
By Eric Jaffa, Monday, May 16, 2005

The Marianas Islands near Japan became a US commonwealth after World War II. Saipan is the largest island and the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. As a commonwealth, clothing made in the Marianas can be labelled "Made in the USA." But US labor laws don’t apply.

In the late 1990s, the Clinton adminstration wanted to apply US labor laws to the Marianas Islands, to prevent sweatshop labor and forced prostitution.

The businessmen on the islands wanted Tom DeLay to make sure no changes passed Congress. DeLay did.

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<link> http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2005_05_16_conservative_con_tom_delay_denies_his_corruption.asp

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1. Yep - 20/20 covered it a few years ago

Guess what progress was made since then?

I think the only thing that happened was that some retailers such as JCPenney refused to carry anything made in the Marianas if it had a "Made in the USA" tag on it. But the sweatshops continue on as usual.