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ROWLAND wants Congress' new GOP leaders to wrap up impeachment case 

At the start of the meeting, Jim Nicholson, the Republican national chairman, pre-empted discussion of the impeachment issue by telling the governors that the meeting was intended to focus on other issues such as Social Security reform, tax cuts, education and the tobacco settlement, according to Rowland.

``We'll get to them (other issues),'' said Rowland, who will be taking a lead role in defending the states' rights to the money from the tobacco settlement against claims by the federal government. ``But it's not going to be for weeks.''

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