Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bipartisan call for his expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona. Gently, but persistently, his colleagues delivered a firm message: this has got to end. Twenty minutes into the meeting, majority leader Robert Dole joined the session. Ten minutes more...
...unrivaled--and, many critics say, unsavory--and make him one of the most powerful politicians in Washington. This week three of his Senate colleagues plan to challenge D'Amato's power, but the odds are against them. He is a bare-knuckle player even by the raucous standards of Capitol Hill, a club fighter who lives for the ring. He curses and cajoles, bestowing favors and exacting revenge, cutting his endless, beloved deals: a compromise to push through a bill, an infusion of cash for an ally's campaign, a raise for someone else's staff member--anything to prove...
THIS FALL, IN AN UNMARKED OFFICE IN THE SUBBASEMENT of the Minnesota state capitol, a team of resource-management planners is fine-tuning the biggest water-diversion project in the history of mankind and the largest transfer of wealth since Cortes acquired the Aztec empire...
...RECOMMEND THAT THE CAPITOL AND all congressional offices be stripped of every piece of art and all members of Congress be prohibited from attending events at the Kennedy Center, National Theater and Ford's Theater. J. FRANK SHROYER Fort Worth, Texas...
...know anything, and if they're against smoking we'll be for it and blow smoke in their faces.' " Senator Frank Lautenberg, who once successfully pushed to ban smoking in all facilities that receive federal funds and that serve children, now has to make his way to his Capitol Hill office past small groups of Republican aides lighting up with impunity in the hallway. To him, it's a partisan issue. "I can smell it," he says. "I don't think Republicans smoke any more than Democrats, but they defy the rules more than Democrats...