Word: capitol
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...President drummed up support by visiting Capitol Hill rather than by summoning congressional leaders to the White House, and by schmoozing with members of the National Governors' Association. He pleased them by giving states more freedom to use federal Medicaid funds as they wish. The Governors still opposed overall limits on health-care spending, though that could be a key part of Clinton's eventual proposals for health-care reform. (See related stories beginning on page...
...family-leave bill must have been especially welcome at the White House. After losing his first nominee for Attorney General and scrapping with Congress and the Pentagon over gays in the military, Clinton finally brought home a winner: the family-leave bill, which had endured eight years of Capitol Hill lobbying and two vetoes by George Bush. Said Clinton: "The first bill I am to sign as President truly puts people first. I am very appreciative that the Congress has moved so rapidly...
Based on Wood's initial reply, the Clinton people at first perceived no potential problem. Wood's supporters say she was later told that after White House officials learned of the baby-sitter's history, the main heat came from Capitol Hill. Administration officials counter that they hardly needed Senators to tell them that they had a political time bomb on their hands...
Recent speculation on Capitol Hill brought up Breyer's name as a possibility, but George Stephanopoulos, the White House communications director, has not commented, the Journal reported...
When Baird's problems became public, Washington was deluged by phone calls in democracy's latest undemocratic innovation, whereby senators count the lights on the Capitol switchboard to take the nation's pulse (no one has yet though to calculate the margin of error of this sophisticated new opinion polling technique...