Word: capitol
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...while the immediate danger of health care mandates from Capitol Hill may have subsided for this year, hospital executives say competition in Boston and Cambridge can only increase...
...Bertrand Aristide. This morning the exiled Haitian President issued a terse statement that pointedly failed to mention the accord brokered Sunday by former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said he intended to remain in contact with the Haitian rulers "because...
...primary motive is political. Clinton knows Republicans are already stockpiling videotapes of him making promises that he later broke, and the middle-class tax cut is a major one. Moreover, on Sept. 27, G.O.P. House members and candidates will hold an extravaganza at the West Front of the Capitol to promote a unified platform for their campaigns. Tax cuts will be * prominently featured; Representative John Kasich of Ohio is pushing a tax credit of $500 for each child in a family, every year. Says he: "Obviously the White House is going to try to steal...
...Lawmakers do not seem sufficiently united to block an invasion, but Republicans can be counted on to criticize the President. They are already charging that an invasion is just a political stunt timed to boost the Democrats' sagging electoral fortunes. In fact what most Congressmen really want, says a Capitol Hill staff member, "is to be consulted, but let Clinton take the heat." Beginning Monday, the Administration's national-security officials will launch a sortie on Capitol Hill to brief key lawmakers...
Clinton Administration officials found a new way to phrase their sabre-rattling on a U.S. invasion of Haiti -- the move could come "very soon," Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said. But there were signs all over Capitol Hill today that the president hasn't convinced legislators to support him. Both Democrats and Republicans complained they were being ignored by a hawkish White House. GOP protestations from Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and presidential aspirant Dan Quayle were no surprise. But leading Democrats also got skittish: Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Thomas Foley both said they preferred...