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Mr. Murtha was convicted on burglary charges in 1978 and 1979 in the Johnstown area. In a statement issued after his latest arrest, his father said that \"he's struggled with a lot of personal problems for 15 years\" and that the Congressman and his wife, Joyce, \"feel terrible about it.\"

\"Both in uniform and in the halls of Congress, Chairman [John Murtha] dedicated his life to serving his country both in the Marine Corps and Congress,\" Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in a statement. \"His unwavering support of our sailors and Marines, and in particular our wounded warriors, was well known and deeply appreciated. The men and women of the naval service and all who have served will sorely miss this strong proponent of selfless service to our nation.\"

[Robert Gates] told lawmakers in a Dec. 31, 2008 letter he intended for the supplemental request to include $600 million for buying four F-22 Raptors to replace losses of one Boeing [BA]-built F-15 Eagle and three Lockheed Martin-made F-16 Fighting Falcon jets. Since then, lawmakers have said Gates' plans for those four F-22s was not clear, because Pentagon officials involved in budget deliberations were sworn to secrecy. Some congressional aides have suggested this week that lawmakers may try to buy more than four F-22s in the supplemental because of Gates' call Monday for the line's termination. [John Murtha] has mentioned items he wants included in the supplemental, including language compelling a dual procurement of the Air Force's aerial-refueling tanker--from Boeing and a Northrop Grumman[NOC]-European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) team--and funding for one Northrop Grumman-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for the Navy. Gates said Monday he has talked to Murtha about a tanker dual buy yet remains opposed to the congressman's idea.

\"With the additional forces that are going to be sent in, we are probably going to recommend increasing that number (of M-ATVs), to protect those troops, to about 10,000,\" [Robert Gates] told the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) yesterday. \"So that's several billion dollars in and of itself just for force protection\" with the M-ATVs. \"We can now refine the numbers and get those to you,\" Gates said. \"The $30 [billion]-to-$35 billion was basically a ballpark figure and we now need to get down and get the details.\" \"The [George W. Bush] administration has run up trillions of dollars in war costs, not many people ever ask how it's going to be paid for on the Republican side. We want to be responsible about reducing the deficit and so we'll see all of the priorities that we have in perspective and with bringing our budget deficit under control.\"

U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Johnstown, sent a letter to [Ann M. Veneman] this week, asking her to issue a drought disaster declaration for the 2002 crop season for both counties as well as for Delaware County in Eastern Pennsylvania. The declaration would make livestock producers in those counties eligible for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Livestock Compensation Program, which will help farmers replace feed crops lost to drought. Fayette, Greene and Delaware counties met that loss threshold this year, and hundreds of farmers in those counties had planned to apply for the funds by yesterday's deadline. But they could not do so because paperwork submitted in August by local Farm Service Agency officials was later disqualified because it contained numerical errors that made it appear that the counties did not meet the loss threshold.

[Ronald M. Gazze]'s withdrawal leaves three Democrats on the ballot: former Greensburg City Councilman Roland \"Buddy\" Mertz, who retired as the former deputy director of the state's Office of Homeland Security; Greensburg attorney John W. Boyle, also a former [John Murtha] staffer; and New Stanton Councilman Scott Sistek, who serves as a legislative aide to retiring state Rep. Tom Tangretti.

That's how conservative leaders view this historic moment. As Iraq hawk William Kristol put it the other day: \"If the American people really come to a settled belief that [Bush] lied us into war, his presidency will be over. He won't have the basic level of trust needed to govern.\" And David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, contended: \"The Iraq war \"is the Bush administration. ... The President has to defend, champion and explain the war -- or else be destroyed by it.\" Frum fears that Bush's unpopularity \"will be very hard to reverse.\" Indeed, Bush's predicament is dire, because he first ran for president on a vow that he, unlike Bill Clinton, would not become trapped in Credibility Gap. Character was Bush's calling card. He promised that he would \"restore honesty\" to the White House; yet today, nearly six in 10 Americans tell pollsters that Bush is untrustworthy. It may be too late for Bush to win them back. As a number of historians and pollsters contended the other day, most Americans by now have developed a shorthand about Iraq: Bush cited weapons of mass destruction as his prime rationale for war; then we went to war and didn't find any. This shorthand has been embraced by swing- voting independents; according to pollster John Zogby, only 28 percent now side with the president.

\"I couldn't work it out,\" [John Murtha] said after a closed HAC-D meeting yesterday afternoon. \"I did everything I could, but we're going to have to wait until the main bill.\" \"We're making a recommendation but we're not sure what's going to happen,\" he said. \"We're not there yet.\" \"If they hadn't requested them we'd probably wouldn't have put them in,\" Murtha said. \"I didn't consider them war-fighting (equipment).\" He added he also wanted to add the funding for the four F-22s \"in order to get the (production) line not to close down at this point.\"