Word: capitol
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...joint budget committee for the present House and Senate units, which often disagree. Most important, it would convert the budget outline Congress is supposed to produce in April to a joint resolution requiring the President's signature. That would foster serious early bargaining between the White House and Capitol Hill. "Any confrontation would occur up front," says Domenici, "not in the days just prior to the new fiscal year...
...Capitol Hill, where several members ofCongress have criticized the Education Departmentfor dragging its feet in the investigation,sources said yesterday that legislators werepleased to see the probe completed. But neitherSen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) nor Rep. Dana Rohrabacher(R-Calif.), the two members most closely involvedwith the proceedings, had time to developstatements on the content of the report, accordingto staffers...
After years of prodding from Capitol Hill and the national education community, the U.S. Department of Education this week announced the results of admissions policy reviews at both Harvard and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Both schools were alleged to have set quotas in their acceptance of Asian American students...
Dole was filling in for President Bush, who cancelled at the last minute so he could lobby on Capitol Hill for the federal deficit reduction plan...
...Capitol Hill last week, Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, reminded Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly that he had defended the Administration's conciliatory policy toward Saddam as late as July 31, two days before the invasion. Kelly had also said the U.S. was not bound by a defense treaty with any gulf state. "You left the impression," said Hamilton, "that it was the policy of the U.S. not to come to the aid of Kuwait...