The Chronicle of Philanthropy

House Leader Misuses Charity for Partisan Goals

By Rick Cohen

Tom DeLay, the House majority leader from Texas, and his wife, Christine, have long professed a sincere concern for children. They are foster parents who recently won honors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for leadership in child advocacy, and since the late1980s the DeLay Foundation has supported programs that help abused and neglected kids.

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