Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that logic, the ongoing work on comprehensive welfare reform or the passage of the Tax Reform Act, two of the more substantial and far-reaching pieces of domestic legislation in recent years, were simply means for calculating congressmen to ensure themselves a return ticket to Capitol Hill...
...pressure became too great. Local TV was showing black congressional employees working in sweatshop conditions; Roll Call, a Capitol Hill weekly, was printing stories of sexual harassment of female workers. So last week the House finally applied the anti-discrimination laws to itself. It got around the separation-of-powers argument neatly by setting up an office staffed by its own members and employees to enforce the law -- a solution that was just as readily available in 1964. The Senate is expected to follow suit next year...
Even D.C.-supporters in Congress foresaw the potential for extensive interference from Capitol Hill. In an August 1986 editorial in the Washington Post, Congressman Stewart McKinney (R-Conn.) warned that the rampant corruption, inefficiency, and misconduct of the Barry administration would soon threaten the future of "home rule...
...long last, here again is Washington's Union Station. Last week, after a thoughtfully conceived and meticulously executed $160 million restoration, the great national depot -- the bustling terminus for hundreds of thousands of troops sent off to two world wars, the Capitol Hill transit point for eleven Presidents and 11 zillion federal hangers-on -- reopened in something like its original form for the first time in more than a decade. It may be the most breathtaking public interior in the U.S. The vast, spiffed-up old station, packed with 140 new shops and restaurants and movie theaters (replacing, among other...
What Byrd alludes to is the six years -- not 40 -- from 1981 through 1986 < when Republicans controlled the Senate. Unable to dominate powerful Capitol Hill committees and staffs for the first time in 26 years, Democrats chafed as Reagan made Congress dance to his less-government tune by advancing deregulation and cutting back on funds for housing, education and college loans. But when Reagan's 1986 plea for continued Republican rule of the Senate failed to persuade enough voters, the Democrats won a 55-45 majority. With a party "more unified than at any time in my 36 years...