Word: capitol
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...fund raising. Of the 31 Senators seeking re-election this year, 17 will raise more money from out-of-state contributors than they do from their own constituents. A growing share of the booty flows from special-interest groups whose goal is to trade cash for influence on Capitol Hill...
...consequences of today's political ferment in the American Diaspora are profound. Both the Bush Administration and members of Congress are increasingly willing to pressure Israel to move the peace process forward. AIPAC is the object of surprising dissent within the Jewish community and deepening resentment on Capitol Hill. Moreover, evidence abounds that all but a few of the 38 Jewish members of Congress (eight Senators, 30 Representatives) favor a compromise in which Israel would exchange territory for peace along the lines suggested by the Reagan and Bush administrations -- despite their unwillingness to say so publicly...
American Jewish leaders have been secretly carrying messages to Jerusalem warning of the restiveness in the U.S. Diaspora and among key policymakers in Washington. "The kind of automatic support of Israel that existed for years on Capitol Hill is simply not here anymore," says the administrative assistant to a Jewish member of Congress. A case in point: the reaction to a proposal by Senate Republican leader Robert Dole to free up foreign-aid dollars for the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe and Latin America by cutting 5% from the $6.9 billion earmarked for five key allies, Israel included. Says...
...herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks ago, in one of the largest settlements of its kind, Conoco offered the families up to $27 million to relocate...
...Japanese capital in America. I strongly feel her editorial piece, "Will Japan Buy Harvard Too?" demands attention because of the likely life-long impact Japanese business will cast on all of our lives, through the creation of jobs in America; ergo, growing political influence in state capitals and on Capitol Hill...