Today's GOP Leadership Report Reno Gazette Journal: Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., called Saturday for congressional hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, calling allegations that it overcharged for fuel in Iraq"an absolute outrage." FOX News: HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut's top Democrat on Saturday urged Gov. John G. Rowland (search) to step aside following his admission that a state contractor helped pay for work on his summer home. New York Times: WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 After a lifetime of public silence, a 78-year-old Los Angeles woman is stepping forward to say she is the daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and a black woman who once worked as the Thurmond family maid.