Word: capitol
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...cities, carrying signs and posing for TV cameras in goofy-looking cow suits. A young woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...
...same day, 62 Senators on Capitol Hill voted to urge the President to tread into that territory and put an end to two decades of rancor with Vietnam. Although the Senate bill was nonbinding, its call to lift the 19- year-long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that...
...international lending institutions to begin pumping money into Vietnam's dilapidated economy. But for Clinton, vulnerability on the issue of draft dodging made it impossible for him to act without the support of Congress. With that in mind, National Security Adviser Tony Lake made a trip up to Capitol Hill last fall to pay a call on John Kerry, Massachusetts' highly decorated Vietnam veteran. The President, Lake explained, was prepared to end the boycott, but he needed political cover. And cover he got. Within weeks, both Kerry and Arizona Republican John McCain, another veteran, had made trips to Hanoi...
Nixon says a good deal of her time is spent inmeetings determining policy and lobbyingstrategies rather than in conversation withlegislators themselves. But she adds that she alsospends some time at the Capitol waiting for achance word with senators and representatives...
...past, I've spent a lot of time in the[Capitol] hallways," Nixon says...