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  Dan Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burton was born Indianapolis, was educated at Indiana University and the Cincinnati Bible Seminary and served in the United States Army.
Burton has been an outspoken critic of the failure of government agencies to find answers to the question of what is causing the evident autism epidemic.
Burton has a personal stake in the growing controversies in autism, and has said his grandson became autistic a few days after receiving nine innoculations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Burton   (555 words)

  
 Congressman Dan Burton: Bitter Clown
Burton accused White House legal staff of an "unprecedented stonewalling of investigations." Ruff insisted, as he did to Thompson, that the presidential counsel's office was complying fully with the requests of a dozen committees, Justice Department investigators and FBI agents investigating campaign finance issues.
Burton, in an almost insane manner, rattled off a laundry list of White House activity he deems "questionable." It was the same old list we've heard for a year, but Burton doesn't seem to recognize "The lady doth protest too much" theory of political warfare.
Burton turned around and compounded his chuckle-inspiring request of the White House saying, "that question was never asked of the Chinese president, and I'd like to know why the President didn't ask him that if he really wants to get to the bottom of this investigation.
www.americanpolitics.com /110797BurtonPsycho.html   (1154 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal | Portrait of a political "pit bull"
Burton's critics and not a few of his friends find it strange, however, that the congressman is given to such strident moralizing.
But Burton's moral standing is further clouded by allegations of on-the-job sexual harassment, including an accusation that he groped a lobbyist from Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s when she visited his Washington office.
The portrait of Burton that emerged from a seven-month investigation is that of a man much like his nemesis, President Clinton: Both rose from troubled, violence-plagued, working-class childhoods to political prominence, and both have put their careers at risk with sexual indiscretions.
www.salon.com /news/1998/12/cov_22newsa.html   (1160 words)

  
 Personal Stories: Dan Burton
When Rep. Dan Burton rose on the floor of the House of Representatives last fall to urge the creation of a National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, few of his colleagues were prepared for the intensely personal nature of his remarks.
Burton, 55, an Indiana Republican, told of growing up in a household terrorized by his father's violence -- of lying awake at night listening to his mother's screams as his father inflicted yet another savage beating that would leave her bruised, bloody, even unconscious.
Dan Burton, married 35 years and the father of three children, ages 18 to 29, decided to speak for publication about his childhood to encourage other victims to break free from domestic violence.
endabuse.org /programs/printable/display.php3?DocID=100116   (1462 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Dan Burton follows in bugbear Clinton's footsteps, admits to extra-marital affair
Dan Burton, the ever combative US Congressman, who has been the architect of several anti-India bills in the Congress and who has the backing of many Khalistani activists, admitted on Friday that he had an extra-marital relationship and child in the early 1980s.
Burton's confession came five days after he made an extraordinary and unexpected statement to his constituents at a town meeting that he had caused pain in his marriage.
For the past two days, Burton has been in Indiana meeting with the woman and their son, and discussing the situation with his family and closest friends, many of whom have encouraged him to speak candidly.
www.rediff.com /news/1998/sep/05us1.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Campaign Finance Special Report
Dan Burton (R-Ind.) has approved nearly $500,000 in payments and salary to his campaign manager, a part-time clown, who appeared simultaneously on his political and official House payrolls.
The Burton campaign has also paid Keller $250 a month to rent office space in her Lawrence, Ind., home, which is outside Burton's congressional district, by declaring it the campaign headquarters.
Burton spokesman John Williams did not dispute the expenditures, but described Keller's work as a legitimate part of the congressman's campaign and official efforts.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/burton122398.htm   (769 words)

  
 Rep. Dan Burton - a Star Library biography
Burton and his siblings Woody and Sylvia were sent to the Marion County Children's Guardian Home and later reunited with their mother.
Dan Burton's 1998 confession that he had fathered a child outside his marriage was prompted by an expose then being prepared by Vanity Fair magazine.
Burton made the revelation because he knew a magazine was working on an article on him and had interviewed hundreds of people from his past.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/b/burton_dan/burton.html   (1188 words)

  
 TAP: Web Feature: The Hypocrisy of Dan Burton:. by Lindsay Sobel. February 22, 2001.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burton is once again staging his self-righteous act, accusing Clinton of doing a favor for a big contributor.
For example, the FBI investigated charges that Burton demanded that a lobbyist for Pakistan raise $5,000 for his campaign or be barred from Burton's office.
Burton has no power over Bill Clinton or his authority to pardon anyone he wanted.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2001/02/sobel-l-02-22.html   (1052 words)

  
 Request for Investigation of Representative Dan Burton
An additional serious issue for Burton is his close relationship with a former model, Claudia Keller, who until recently was his campaign manager, a position she carried out from the Dan Burton for Congress campaign office, located in her Indianapolis home -- which is outside his congressional district.
Burton's frequent visits to Keller's home were ostensibly to discuss business, though he often arrived dressed as if he were headed to the golf course, according to Denise Range, a neighbor, and was sometimes greeted at the door by Keller wearing a teddy.
Her son, John, who Burton recommended for graduate school and hired onto his Washington staff immediately upon his graduation, also said that he was unaware that his mother did any work for Burton's campaign.
www.essential.org /orgs/CAP/ethics/burtoncom.html   (2875 words)

  
 Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Representative Dan Burton of IN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burton has not yet cosponsored H.R., which would put an end to the practice of "extraordinary rendition," in which Bush Administration officials send people into the custody of certain nations, knowing full well (some would say intending) that they will be tortured there.
Dan Burton has not yet signed on as a cosponsor to H.R., which would keep government agents from riffling through your bookstore receipts and library records without your permission or knowledge.
Dan Burton has not yet cosponsored H.R., which would keep members of the Federal Communication Commission from using their appointed positions to censor cable, satellite or internet programs they consider to be indecent.
irregularbin.com /house/BurtonIN5.html   (2797 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Building a better company
Dan Burton, 50, said the company has expanded a lot in the past 12 years, and "we had outgrown our facility on State Street.
While Burton Lumber's other operations in St. George, Logan, Layton, Holladay and Lindon will remain in their current locations, the new headquarters is a big change for Dan and Jeff, 46.
Dan Burton said the company's long-term success also is due to employees who know how to serve customers.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/1,1249,525036229,00.html   (1036 words)

  
 Joel Mowbray on Dan Burton & Saudi Arabia on National Review Online
Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, is continuing the work he publicly began in June committee hearings.
Burton's list has a total of 14 names of Americans trapped inside the Kingdom, and Burton will make every effort to ensure the safe release of every last name on his list.
Burton's delegation of two Democrats and three other Republicans will be meeting with Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal this weekend, demanding that the 14 children and young adults be allowed to leave with the congressmen.
www.nationalreview.com /mowbray/mowbray083002.asp   (733 words)

  
 National Review: Dan Burton, Right Again - The congressman who does the job - Burton leads investigation into ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And that is where Burton remained until the administration's final week in office, when he received a letter saying the case had been closed for lack of evidence.
Burton's investigators followed the complex series of contributions that ensued as Riady made good on his pledge by laundering payments to the Democratic party through a long list of straw donors.
Burton, who had long since told his wife, decided to make the news public himself rather than let the damaging revelation come out in the magazine.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_5_53/ai_72007009   (1269 words)

  
 Dan Burton Page
Burton's parents were divorced early on, but when Dan was 12, Charles Burton broke into Bonnie's mother's house, where the family was living, and kidnapped Bonnie at gunpoint, holding her hostage for 10 days before she managed to escape.
Her son, Michael, whom Burton recommended for graduate school and hired onto his Washington staff as a key aide immediately upon his graduation, also said he was unaware that his mother received a regular paycheck from Burton's campaign.
Dan Moll, a fundraiser for Burton who was working on the House's civil-service subcommittee at the time, was overheard by a source trying to shake down money from a possible contributor from his subcommittee office.
www.tylwythteg.com /enemies/burton.html   (7960 words)

  
 Biography
Dan Burton is currently serving his twelfth term as a United States Representative from
Dan Burton was born on June 21, 1938, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Burton held office in the Indiana State Senate (1969-70 and 1981-82), as well as in the Indiana House of Representatives (1967-68 and 1977-80).
www.house.gov /burton/dan.htm   (544 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dan Burton
Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining.
Danny Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's newly configured 5th District of Indiana.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dan-Burton   (2606 words)

  
 Voter's Voice: Rep. Dan Burton And The Hubbell Tapes - May 5, 1998
Burton was courageous to stand up for justice, and reinforces the validity of my decision to leave the Democratic Party and its corruption.
Burton should be commended for this courageous action, especially in light of the animosity directed at him from members of the opposing party and the media.
Dan Burton is not only right releasing the tapes and is the only one with the GUTS to tell you what a bunch of SLOBS you all are for blindly supporting SLEAZE where ever you find it.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/05/voters.voice   (1409 words)

  
 CLOSER LOOK: May 8, 1998: Fool on the Hill
Dan Burton is so convinced Vince Foster was murdered that he brought a pistol into the backyard of his Indiana home and reenacted the crime -- reportedly with a pumpkin standing in for Foster's head.
Dan Burton is so afraid of catching AIDS that he brings his own scissors to the House barbershop and refuses to eat soup at public restaurants.
Burton followed that with a dreadful George Costanza-style stunt.
www.time.com /time/daily/special/look/burton   (314 words)

  
 Sandy Grady: Dan Burton bush-league imitation of Joe McCarthy
In Burton's selective transcript, Hubbell seems to confess he and Susan McDougal are paid to stay quiet.
In truth, Burton's a Clinton-despising conspiracy addict (he shot bullets into a melon to prove Vince Foster was murdered) miscast to run a House investigation.
Burton's thick-skinned against Democrats bleating about his mishandled tapes.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/98/05/06/grady.0-1.html   (642 words)

  
 MediaWatch --05/18/1998 -- Page One: Forget Corruption, Pick on Dan Burton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dan Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee is charged with investigating possible lawbreaking in the campaign fundraising scandal.
Burton has been frustrated by 53 Democratic fundraisers taking the Fifth, 39 witnesses who either fled the country or are foreign nationals unwilling to testify, and 19 Democrats on his own committee who unanimously refused to immunize four witnesses cleared by Clinton's own Justice Department.
After a day of recounting excerpts of the tapes, the networks claimed the Burton committee's highlights were edited to remove references more favorable to Hubbell or Hillary Clinton.
secure.mediaresearch.org /news/mediawatch/1998/mw19980518pg1.html   (389 words)

  
 Dan Burton
Burton has proposed bringing criminal charges if it's proven the government agencies were involved in a cover-up.
Burton has a personal stake in the growing scandal: he said his grandson became autistic a few days after receiving nine inoculations.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indiana, who chairs the committee, also has a personal stake in the inquiry: He's the grandfather of a 5-year-old who was diagnosed with autism three years ago.
www.vaccinetruth.org /new_page_9.htm   (17702 words)

  
 Russ Baker, Dan Burton andPolitics of Personal Destruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
By BRIAN A. It was just after Labor Day weekend and U.S. Rep. Dan Burton had just made his bizarre preemptive admission of his illegitimate child followed by the facts as he saw fit to release to the public.
It all came because free-lance writer Russ Baker was working on an exposŽ of Burton that he believed was to appear in the September edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
Baker began a seven-month saga writing about Dan Burton after a controversial spring when the Hoosier congressman received extensive news coverage as he chaired the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee investigating the Clinton-Gore '96 campaign.
www.nuvo.net /archive/010799/010799_cstreet.html   (736 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - "Dan Burton's having a hissy fit"
Dan Burton is a snake in the grass.....
Dan may have been a jerk regarding the various Clinton investigations, but at least he's being consistent.
Bet Dan thought he'd be attorney general at the least after his yeoman job of character assassination....
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID38/13637.html   (747 words)

  
  No Better Friend - A Special Thanks to Congressman Dan Burton
As chair of the powerful Committee on Government Reform, and having personally taken on the challenge of addressing many vexing vaccination issues, nothing was nearer and dearer to his heart than championing the rights of those possibly injured by vaccines.
Regardless, not one to give up easily, and even though Congress had already adjourned, Congressman Burton returned from his home state of Indiana, to address the now near empty chambers, in order to explain why the special provisions in the Homeland Security Act were "a travesty of justice".
And even though he was unable to influence the vote in the House, in an effort to forestall passage of the egregious rider in the Senate, he prepared a "Dear Colleague" letter containing facts and fiction about autism, which Democratic Senator Lieberman delivered to the floor of the Senate, during the contentious Senate debate.
www.vaccinationnews.com /Scandals/Dec_6_02/Scandal45.htm   (620 words)

  
 Dan Burton's “Political Malpractice” - Dan Burton's "Political Malpractice" By Alexander Chancellor and Bruce ...
According to Mark Shields (NewsHour), GOP leaders have always known Burton is a genuine nutter--remember that stunt with the rifle and the watermelon?--and therefore the blame must rest on Gingrich's shoulders.
The conventional explanation for the newly aggressive Gingrich--he has publicly supported Burton and advises GOP colleagues to speak of Clinton's "crimes" rather than of charges--is that he is shoring up support in his political base, the extreme right wing.
Burton, on the ropes after a particularly tough Tony Snow (Fox News Sunday) question, retreats with the most transparent wiggle of the weekend.
www.slate.com /id/1685   (806 words)

  
 REP. DAN BURTON (R-IN)
On February 1, 1991, Rep. Burton purchased between 1,000 and 15,000 dollars worth of stock in Newmont Gold Co. (a large domestic mining operation).
Burton voted NAY on H.R. In addition, Rep. Burton voted with the mining industry on four amendments to H.R. 322 (Roll #'s 568, 569, 570, and 571).
After passage of H.R. 322, Rep. Burton voted AYE on the Crapo motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report it back forthwith containing recommendations that will result in no net loss of jobs as measured by existing Department of Interior economic models; the Crapo motion was rejected.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/coinop_congress/stock_congress/dan_burton.html   (352 words)

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