41.   For years, the GOP labeled congressional leadership incompetent.

42.   Fox addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Thursday and will breakfast with congressional leadership the following morning.

43.   Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster with close ties to the congressional leadership, implicitly agreed.

44.   Gore asserts that Bradley should have stayed in Washington to fight the Republican congressional leadership, as Gore says he did.

45.   Fund-raising and the clamor for contributions lies at the heart of the most serious complaints against the White House and the congressional leadership.

46.   He also has close personal connections with the current congressional leadership.

47.   He got a bill embodying his signature issue, campaign finance reform, passed over the opposition of the congressional leadership of his own party.

48.   He also faulted the congressional leadership for slashing spending for legal immigrants.

49.   He must define himself and his party in specific ways that highlight the differences with the Republican congressional leadership.

50.   He then met with the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House, where he later hosted a large congressional delegation for an hour-long discussion.