31.   Bush said only his wife and Dick Cheney, the former congressman at the head of his search process, knew his thinking on the issue.

32.   But after that deal foundered, such concerns died on Capitol Hill, said Tauke, a former Republican congressman.

33.   But Badillo, a former congressman, said CUNY has inordinate numbers of unprepared students.

34.   But Bush chose oil industry executive Dick Cheney, a former congressman and Bush cabinet member.

35.   But his opponent is the equally popular two-term Democratic governor and former congressman, Thomas Carper.

36.   But the former congressman from Kansas said the budget impasse between the administration and congressional Republicans is nothing to laugh about.

37.   But the governor chose oil industry executive Dick Cheney, a former congressman and secretary of defense.

38.   But Udall, son of Morris Udall, the former Arizona congressman and presidential candidate, is buying none of it.

39.   But throughout his trial and federal prison term, the former congressman steadfastly proclaimed his innocence.

40.   Cheney, as well, is canny in the ways of Washington, a former congressman who, as a cabinet officer, served Bush the First well.