Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dick Armey was little known outside the Capitol until now, it wasn't because he sugarcoats his message. Invited to the White House in March 1993 to offer his views on the Administration's new economic plan, he told Clinton . that the plan was dumb and would sink his presidency. Three months later, the Texas Congressman called Hillary Clinton a Marxist. He apologized -- and then promised to restrict his Marxist comparisons of the Clintons to Groucho, not Karl...
...week's end Democratic resumes clogged printshops on Capitol Hill, where real estate agents predicted a buyers' market in brick town houses. Some Democrats, however, were slow to accept the news. An incumbent committee chairman, informed by a Democratic party elder that the House was falling to the Republicans, began to prattle on about how he would adjust his agenda to accommodate the newcomers. "Don't you understand?" the party elder interrupted. "You're not the chairman anymore...
...Senate or the House was defeated last week; not a single Republican resident of a Governor's mansion was evicted. The anger of the electorate was anything but inchoate. It was neatly targeted. The Democrats were seen -- not unreasonably, given their control of the White House and Capitol Hill -- as the Establishment and were made to pay. The anger was not indiscriminate. The two most outrageous Republican offerings, the vacuous Michael Huffington and the felonious Oliver North, together spent more than $40 million on their egregious ambitions, and lost anyway...
...Republicans have cast themselves again as enemies of Big Government, and thus as friends of the people. Tim Matuszewski, a machinist in Bay City, Michigan, believes it. "I'm sliding to the Republican side because they are more for the little guy." But the new G.O.P. majority on Capitol Hill is no less beholden to the special interests for campaign funds than are the Democrats. It has been no more willing to unravel the elaborate system of entitlements like farm subsidies and Social Security and a variety of tax preferences that favor the rich and the established and make real...
...yesterday, Pentagon officials said five of the 12 Army divisions rated below the top level of preparedness. (Since the three lowest-rating divisions are backup units, national safety isn't threatened, they said.) Defense Secretary William Perry, in a letter to congressional leaders, said part of the problem was Capitol Hill foot-dragging on making up the financial shortfall...