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...concerned, there's nothing public about [PBS]," Gingrich crowed to a roomful of like-minded enthusiasts in Washington's Capitol Hill Club last February. "It's an elitist enterprise. Rush Limbaugh is public broadcasting." Yeah, and so is Howard Stern--and Jenny Jones is Ken Burns, and Tom Clancy is Toni Morrison. The fact is that no system with as broad and loyal an audience base as PBS repeatedly garners can be called elitist. A national poll conducted for PBS by Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 84% of Americans want to see PBS funding maintained or increased and that...
...72nd birthday, the candidate talked in his Capitol office with correspondents Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty about the cycle of age, experience and shifting politics...
...know. I assume it's happening to everybody. We're getting older every day, all of us, but I don't notice any marked change. I still like to come to work in the morning. I like to see the Capitol. I like to see it lighted up at night; that's generally when we go home. I like what I do, because every day is different. It takes a lot of patience sometimes. You don't win them...
Graves, currently a public policy fellow at Radcliffe, said the issues raised by the allegations of sexual harassment and the treatment of the issue by other Senators and the media provide insight into the power structure on Capitol Hill...
...said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people who don't need a tax break." President Clinton plans to grab the baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event on Capitol Hill, while Gephardt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other Democrats will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary on Sunday in Independence, Mo., where President Johnson signed the legislation into law, sitting beside former President Harry Truman, who had fought long and hard for national health insurance.House Speaker...