Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national level, this summer's anti-violence crusader Sen. Paul Simon has gained a powerful ally in Attorney General Janet Reno. Reno, embattled by an unbroken string of well-publicized law enforcement failures, has recognized what the bow-tied Mr. Potatohead of Capitol Hill has shrewdly seen all along: TV violence, unlike real violence, is an inherently solvable, if completely delusory, "problem...
...atmosphere in some parts of the country and on Capitol Hill has been near panic. I've done everything I could to stem that attitude. We are really the victims in many ways of instant communications, instant polling. That has a purpose, but we need to be steadier, and have a longer view of American interests. That more than anything has kept me awake...
What's good for the country is often not good enough, or perhaps too good, for Capitol Hill. Congress exempts itself from a wide array of major federal laws, sometimes citing the doctrine of separation of powers or simply the need for loyal, compatible workers. The Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress has compiled a list of the exceptions. Highlights...
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala went to Capitol Hill and found that legislators had removed the kid gloves they used when questioning Hillary Clinton. Testifying before two congressional committees on the President's health-care-reform plan, Shalala was chided for giving vague answers and for not being able to explain how the program would be financed. "I am no Mrs. Clinton," Shalala said...
...last week she made her public debut as poet laureate by reading from her passionately lyrical stanzas in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, whose vast collection was replenished by 6,000 volumes purchased from Jefferson's library after the British burned the U.S. Capitol during...