Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until recently he had used his bully pulpit only to urge congressional action, failing to realize that presidential speech has a potency apart from its effect on Capitol Hill...
...slots and 400 places in substance-abuse treatment facilities. The government will contribute $20 million in three installments over two years, but only if the District meets strict performance standards. Local skeptics question whether the inept D.C. bureaucracy can manage the project efficiently. Cisneros, however, fears partisan bickering on Capitol Hill could delay the program's launch until next fall...
...Drive for show; putt for dough" is an expression golfers understand. So should members of Congress, many of whom are fond of playing the game at someone else's expense. However, despite the legislative long balls hit over the past season, Capitol Hill's 535 members were unable to master one essential stroke: reforming the rules for their own behavior. True, both the House and Senate gave the appearance of movement on laws designed to tighten campaign financing and lobbying regulations. But both bodies moved so late and in such contradictory directions that any reconciliation they are able to fashion...
These measures, along with others from the House of Representatives, may come to life on Capitol Hill after the great debates on health care and the North American Free Trade Agreement are resolved. In fact, immigration questions already lurk beneath the surface of both these issues: should citizens carry a national medical identification card, and will the trade agreement lure more or fewer Mexicans north? Almost surely, Congress will try to reform immigration law again...
...Capitol Hill, they try getting serious about guns...