Word: beltways
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...classic Beltway: In principle, nobody opposed the aviation security bill, but it still took Congress more than two months to deliver it to the President?s desk. After much delay, the bill sailed through a final congressional vote Friday...
Until last month, O'Neill recommended delays in Clinton-era money-laundering regulations that had not yet been implemented so that cost-benefit analyses could be run--a classic Beltway ploy for slowing down and killing rules. And O'Neill's Treasury Department has called for a "top-to-bottom" review of anti-money-laundering resources and programs, which would have brought in the Office of Management and Budget to bean-count the costs of money-laundering enforcement...
...current, very unfamiliar situation, there?s little doubt about whether to proceed with an investigation. Do we need to investigate our colossal intelligence failures that led to September 11th? Of course we do, But this shouldn?t be just a blame rain dance, where the Beltway types just move the same problems from one box into another...
...accountability. With more than 40 federal agencies now sharing responsibility for domestic security, accountability is spread too thin and bureaucratic gaps are too common. A coordinator who organizes interagency task forces and working groups has neither authority nor accountability. He or she cannot order that anything be done. Beltway skeptics talk about the inevitable bureaucratic resistance to our proposal for a new agency. I, for one, would like to hear one Cabinet officer argue that it is more important to protect his or her bureaucratic prerogative than it is to protect the people of the U.S. With congressional support...
...sprawling commuter district west of Chicago, which also includes Ronald Reagan's hometown. Heavyset and rumpled, Hastert looks a little like comedian Drew Carey. In public his staff addresses him as Mr. Speaker, but in private he prefers that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane he can back to his modest Yorkville, Ill., home across from a cornfield on Route 34. When he became Speaker, his security detail told him he'd have to lock his doors at night...