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Constitution is focus of new GOP House rules


Sponsors of all bills will now need to cite document’s authority to enact legislation


BY PHILIP RUCKER AND KRISSAH THOMPSON When Republicans take over the


House next week, they will do some- thing that apparently has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-year history: Theywill read the Constitution aloud. And then they will require that every


new bill contain a statement by the lawmakerwhowrote it citing the consti- tutional authority to enact the proposed legislation. Call it the tea party-ization of Con-


gress. “It appears that the Republicans have


been listening,” said Jeff Luecke, a sales supervisor and tea party organizer in Dubuque, Iowa. “We’re so far away from our founding principles that, absolutely, this is the very, very tip of the iceberg. We need to talk about and learn about the Constitution daily.” These are two standout changes on a


long list of new rules Republicans will institute in theHousewhen they assume themajority on Jan. 5. After handing out pocket-size Constitutions at rallies, after studying the document article by article and after demanding that Washington return to its founding principles, tea party activists have something new to applaud. A pillar of their grass-roots movement will become a staple in the bureaucracy that governs Congress. “On November 2nd, voters called for


an end to reckless spending and a renewed commitment to the Constitu- tion,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R- Minn.), a tea party favorite. “These new rules show that Republicans are serious about respecting the Constitution.”


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BILLYTAYLOR 1921-2010 Scholarly jazz ambassador consideredD.C. home BY MATT SCHUDEL Billy Taylor, one of the most versatile,


influential and revered figures of the jazz world, who left his mark as a pianist, composer, educator and broadcaster and madeWashington’s Kennedy Center one of thenation’spremier concert venues for jazz, died Dec. 28 at a hospital in New York.Hewas 89 and had a heart attack. Dr. Taylor, who grew up in the District


and derived his early musical education from local teachers and from jazz shows at theHoward Theater, had a career that spanned nearly 70 years.He collaborated with almost every significant performer in jazz, fromDuke Ellington and Charlie Parker toWyntonMarsalis, but he had an even rarer gift for explaining his music and drawing people to it. Beginninginthe1950s,Dr.Taylorwasa


pioneering television and radio host and continued in that role for decades, bring- ing the joys and complexities of jazz to countless viewers and listeners. With a doctorate in education, he was a scholar aswellasaperformerandwas considered perhaps the foremost jazz educator of his time.Hetaught incolleges, lecturedwide- ly, served on panels, traveled theworld as


HELAYNE SEIDMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Billy Taylor made theKennedy Center a premier concert location for jazz.


a jazz ambassador and organized clinics and concert programs that took re- nownedmusicians directly to the streets. For more than 20 years, Dr. Taylor


appeared as the Emmy Award-winning jazzcorrespondentof “CBSSundayMorn-


ing,” interviewing and performing with hundreds of artists. He was among the first to popularize the phrase “jazz is America’s classicalmusic.”


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104 90 Six Wizards, including John Wall, right, score more than 10 points. D1


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69 55 Ninth-ranked Georgetown loses its Big East opener to No. 15 Notre Dame. D1


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METRO Va. to vet textbooks


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Regulators see chance to cash in Officials trade federal jobs for lucrative gigs on Wall St. and elsewhere. A11


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From Lincoln Center: Lessons in design Revamped N.Y. arts landmark has livelier feel. C1


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E.J. Dionne Jr.: Liberals should remember 2010 for their victories, not minor losses. A15


The Washington Post Year 134, No. 25


CONTENT © 2010


BY MICHAEL A. FLETCHER IN HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.


D


uring the seven months that he was stationed in Iraq, Joe Janssen served as an assaultman, a job that


involved manning the turret gun in a Humvee and using shoulder-fired rock- ets and other explosives to support his fellowMarines. Those skills were invaluable in war.


But they are of little use now that he is back home inHauppauge, a Long Island hamlet. He has applied for job after job since leaving active duty well over a year ago, but his efforts have proved futile. TheMarine reservistusedhis veterans


benefits to finish his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.Nowhe is scouring for a job inlawenforcementwhilehewaits for his name to rise to the top of the New York State Police hiring list — which is unlikely to be anytime soon, given the state’s severe budget problems. “I have a passion to be a cop,” said Janssen, 23, a fitness buffwho dabbles in


mixed martial arts. “But no one is hiring.” Janssen’s experience is common


among the 2 million veterans of the long-running wars in Iraq and Afghani- stan. As they return home to the worst labor market in generations, the veter- ans who are publicly venerated for their patriotism and service are also having a harder time than most finding work, federal data show. While their nonmilitary contempo-


rarieswere launching careers during the nearly 10 years the nation has been at war, troops were repeatedly deployed to desolate war zones. And on their return to civilian life, these veterans are forced to find their way in a bleak economy where the skills they learned atwar have little value. Some experts say the grim employ-


ment landscape confronting veterans challenges the veracity of one of the central recruiting promises of the na- tion’s all-volunteer force: that serving in


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Coach Ralph Friedgen, right, joins AdrianMoten and the rest of the Terps in singing the school fight song atRFKStadium. MIKEWISE


INSPORTS Terps win coach’s finale


As U-Md. routs East Carolina, 51-20, in the Military Bowl, Ralph Friedgen’s final game, a potential replacement visits campus. D1


A cold farewell


Terrapins players and fans embrace their outgoing coach, but the school, in a classless gesture, courts a new one. D1


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Midsize vehicles leading growth in auto sales despite focus on fuel efficiency


BY PETERWHORISKEY If U.S. consumers are in themidst of a


greenrevolution, thenewshasn’t reached car buyers. With the end of the recession, bigger


vehicles have made a comeback, sales figures show, and it has come at the expense of smaller,more-efficient cars. Leading the growth were sales ofmid-


size sport-utility vehicles, which jumped 41 percent through the first 11months of


the year, led by vehicles such as the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Honda Pilot, each of which get about 18 miles per gallon. Sales of small cars, by contrast, re-


mained flat despite otherwise surging de- mandfor automobiles. Sales of theToyota CorollaandtheHondaCivicdeclined,and even the fuel-sipping Toyota Prius, the hybrid darling of the eco-conscious, dropped1.7percent. “Youhaveabout5percentof themarket


that is green and committed to fuel effi- ciency,” saidMike Jackson, the chief exec- utive of AutoNation, the largest auto re- tailer in the country. “But the other 95 percentwill give up an extra 5mpg in fuel economy for a better cupholder.” Overall, car and light-truck purchases


Scenes fromthe game


To view a Military Bowl photo gallery and timeline of Friedgen’s career go


to washingtonpost.com/sports. Industry’s rebound more SUV than mpg


climbed 12 percent from January to No- vember, led by the consumer tilt toward SUVs and pickups, according to recent numbers fromAutodata. The rise in SUVsales comes as the auto


industry, government officials and adver- tisers have been agog this year with envi- ronmental sentiment and boasts about the fuel efficiency of new battery plug-in cars, such as the Chevrolet Volt and the NissanLeaf,whichrecentlywent onsale. General Motors ads have touted the


Volt, which runs on a battery for the first 40 miles, as “something we can all be proudof.” Nissan has pitched the all-electric Leaf


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Agency says it will punish states that don’t make cuts


BY JULIET EILPERIN The Environmental Protection Agen-


cy established an aggressive “pollution diet” for theChesapeakeBay onWednes- day, spelling out steps that six states and the Districtmust take by 2025 to put the troubled estuary on the path to recovery. The legally enforceable road map —


more than 200 pages long, with more than 3,000 pages of appendices — will affect a variety of activities in the region, including how pig and chicken farms dispose ofwaste and theway golf course operators fertilize their fairways. The plan is “the largest water pollu-


tion strategy plan in the nation,” said Shawn M. Garvin, the agency’s regional administrator for the mid-Atlantic re- gion. It is intended to fundamentally change the tenor of the long-failed Chesapeake cleanup. The EPA once preached cooperation with state efforts it was supposed to oversee. Now, it is playing cop, promising legal punish- ments if the states don’t live up to their pledges to cut pollution. Some state and local officials warned


the plan could be costly and hard to execute, particularly at a time when state budgets are under immense pres- sure. The District and six states — Mary-


land, Virginia,West Virginia, Pennsylva- nia, Delaware and New York — submit- ted proposals this fall that would cut pollution runoff into the bay over the next 15 years. The final plan issued by the EPA, using its authority under the Clean Water Act, strengthens the anti- pollutionmeasures of some of the states. The EPA is prepared to enforce the


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After grimwars, some battle a grimjobmarket


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