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...fully understand the workings of Washington, it doesn't always pay to stick close to Capitol Hill. It was in a tiny church in suburban South Carolina that senior correspondent Jeff Birnbaum, who reported and wrote this week's cover story on Ralph Reed, fully realized just how Reed's Christian Coalition has become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. Congress and the Republican Party. "This was a little church in the sticks," says Jeff. "But it had a satellite dish so that it could receive transmissions of Reed's training show, Christian Coalition Live...
...district including Muncie, Ind., sent Sharpto the House in 1974. On Capitol Hill, he gained areputation as an expert on environmental andenergy policy...
When it emerged that the first serious suspects in the bombing were not Arabs or Muslims, the threat of a backlash subsided. What did not change was the sudden momentum behind passage of an antiterrorism bill bitterly opposed by many Arab-American groups, as well as civil libertarians. On Capitol Hill, where the members of Congress are eager to show that they are doing something to prevent future outrages, the omnibus counterterrorism act of 1995 is now getting serious attention. Proposed by the Clinton Administration in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, it would, among its many provisions...
Senators at a packed Capitol Hill hearing embracedPresident Clinton's new plan to combat terrorism, but several urged a "go-slow" approach toavoid trampling on civil liberties. "I don't want us to panic," said Joseph Biden (D-Del.). Even Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), thepresident's leading rival for 1996, straddled the fence: "America will not be paralyzed into inaction by those who have committed this evil deed," Dole said, referring to theOklahoma City bombing. But he also said there was "no big rush here" to pass legislation...
...United States to resist acts of terror," President Clinton ordered far morestringent security measuresto be put in place at all federal buildings in Washington. In the last two days, bomb threats have been made in seven other cities. All international airports remain in a heightened state of alert. On Capitol Hill, Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde said he will toughen the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism bill to prevent members of terrorist organizations from entering the country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum...