Word: capitol
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Well, not the only person. Bill Clinton told reporters last week he believed that all his old friends, current aides and former colleagues who trudged up Capitol Hill to testify had "acquitted themselves quite well, and I've been proud of them." Yet the President could not have been completely satisfied. Though they focused on Washington events of just two years ago and featured guaranteed headline-grabbing witnesses like the cantankerous Nussbaum, the Senate deliberations ended a four-week run last Friday pretty much where they had begun: with plenty of suspicious smoke but no apparent fire. The House hearings...
There were dueling Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill. Federal bank investigator L. Jean Lewis told a House panel that government higher-ups engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the S&L that is at the heart of the Whitewater case. At the Senate hearings, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum adamantly told skeptical Senators that his controversial search of the late Vincent Foster's files was but one of the many "right calls" he made to protect legitimate confidences and was not a Whitewater cover...
...Capitol Hill is the last best public place in America for smokers, a refuge where lighting up is countenanced as both a venerable tradition and an up-to-the-minute political statement about the evils of overregulation. The marble halls are decorated with sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke...
...years ago, smoking was going the way of snuff and chaw in Washington. Hillary Clinton outlawed it in the White House, forcing chastened inhalers onto the lawn. The Democratic House Speaker Thomas Foley prohibited smoking in public areas on the House side of the Capitol. A joke circulated on Capitol Hill that smoking was welcome only in the offices of the North Carolina congressional delegation...
When the American history painter John Trumbull was paid $32,000 for the four scenes of the American Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence (1818), that adorn the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, a loud outcry arose against their cost. But does anyone alive today think it was wrong to spend public money on jump-starting the Library of Congress with Jefferson's 6,500 books or creating America's first monumental paintings of its own history? Was Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which gave jobs to numerous good American artists in the Depression years, a bad idea...