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Earlier this year, gun-control advocates won a rare victory on Capitol Hill when the House endorsed a seven-day waiting period during which police may check the backgrounds of prospective handgun purchasers. They argued that the ban on domestic semiautomatics and the restriction of magazines containing more than seven rounds was a logical next step that could prevent haunted individuals from committing mass murders. During the House debate, one legislator did switch his vote: Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat and gun-control opponent whose district includes Killeen, site of last week's killings. "Suddenly, the old arguments ring hollow...
More fireworks are expected to erupt on Capitol Hill this week as a Senate subcommittee hears evidence in the B.C.C.I. scandal. Witnesses ranging from CIA and State Department officials to Georgia businessman Bert Lance and a former top B.C.C.I. executive will drop one bombshell after another, say staff members on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The most explosive testimony will focus on which heads of state took bribes from the bank, as well as on the role of Washington attorney Clark Clifford and what he knew about his Washington bank's connections to B.C.C.I. Clifford...
...whole, and the higher education budget in particular, have been slashed and burned over the last 10 years. And in the tight budgetary climate of Washington, there is not much hope for an upswing in funding. But if any person could change that, if any person could convince Capitol Hill to do what's right instead of what's cheap, it would be Harvard's president...
Although he estimates that the cost of SETI to the US citizen is only about "five cents per taxpayer per year," the program is still "met with opposition and ridicule by scientific ignoramuses" on Capitol Hill...
...rules of Congress are arcane, often unwritten, and demand a lifetime of male bonding to understand. It's bad form to call one's deepest philosophical enemy anything but "my distinguished colleague," or to continue a political argument after hours. When cries went up for a list of Capitol Hill check bouncers, House Speaker Tom Foley protected Democrats and Republicans alike, as does the Ethics Committee. So ingrained is the clubbiness that partisanship often seems like a Hulk Hogan spectacle, faked for the C-SPAN audience...