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Last week Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker joined Bush's lobbying campaign by phone, while G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater and Vice President Dan Quayle prowled for votes in the corridors and cloakrooms of the Capitol. Even Richard Nixon phoned wavering Senators to say that Sino-American relations would suffer if Bush was defeated...
...Settling into the mayor's office would mean being tied down by the Lilliputian strings of Washington's troubled municipal bureaucracy. Speaking before the Barry arrest, Jackson said, "It's just too small a stage for me." And his friends note that Jackson is well aware that Capitol Hill has as much to say about the District's budget as does the mayor. He would be tugged this way and that by members of Congress, some of whom he outpolled in his 1988 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination...
NATION: Bush's narrow victory on his China policy foreshadows a rough year with Capitol Hill...
...Stockton, Calif., massacre of little children was a warning to our policymakers. But Congress lacked the courage to do anything. During the year of inaction on Capitol Hill, we have seen too many other tragedies brought about by assault weapons. In Louisville an ex-employee of a printing plant went on a shooting spree with a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the AK- 47, gunning down 21 people, killing eight and himself. Two Colorado women were murdered and several others injured by a junkie using a stolen MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. And Congress votes itself a pay raise...
...President's stance is even shakier, given his campaign to cut the rate on capital gains, a measure that would mostly benefit taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year. The President, along with probable majorities on Capitol Hill, in effect proposes to cut taxes on the wealthy while raising them on wage earners...