Sperling showered and changed and at 4:30 scooted back to the Old Executive Office Building, where he and fellow aide Barry Toiv called Joe Lockhart, the press secretary for the Clinton-Gore Re-Election Committee.

CNN: It's All In The Timing

Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, chairwoman of the Agriculture Committee, lost her re-election bid, but there are still three female committee chairwomen: Sen.

CNN: Despite new female faces in Congress, numbers in decline

And there's a second way in which it might be changed: half way through the Parliament - so in about June, I assume - the chair and members of the backbench committee will face re-election.

BBC: The year ahead in Parliament

Six months after his party won a general election, the committee has yet to be re-established.

ECONOMIST: Georgia

And the figures indicate that a sizeable minority of these British investors with longer-term horizons may also have voted against the re-election of Alison Carnwarth as a director and chair of the remuneration committee.

BBC: Do investors have the power to curb excessive bosses' pay?

Bush's thinking: In 2002, she did about a half-dozen fundraisers for Republicans, then she upped the ante with far more appearances during her husband's 2004 re-election campaign, culminating in more than 50 political events for the Republican National Committee and individual candidates in the final midterm election during the Bush administration.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

At the heart of the probe is whether issue advocacy ads run by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in battleground states were actually thinly veiled Clinton-Gore re-election ads.

CNN: Clinton interviewed by Justice investigators