1.   House Republican Conference rules prohibit a censured lawmaker from being a committee chairman or holding a leadership post.

2.   Only Tuesday night did campaign sources reveal that he would relinquish the day-to-day duties of the leadership post.

3.   He announced that he had resigned in accordance with a recent party proposal providing for an income and wealth ceiling for those holding leadership posts.

4.   Although he is influential because of his leadership post and his California base, Cox is seen as trailing Livingston by a wide margin.

5.   Although severe by congressional standards, the sanction does not disqualify Gingrich for his leadership post.

6.   And those in top congressional leadership posts have not filled the void.

7.   And, he said, his leadership post enhances not only him, but the school district.

8.   As a result, Livingston, Largent, and DeLay could end up in control of the top three leadership posts.

9.   As Republicans vie for leadership posts, the Democrats are sitting in the background in a noticeably quiet fashion.

10.   Beyond the new leadership post, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed Dunn to the powerful steering committee which decides who is assigned to which committees.