Word: capitol
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JACK ABRAMOFF, disgraced Washington lobbyist, talking to a Jewish publication about his role in the Capitol Hill lobby scandal...
...candidates who have been preparing for a presidential run for years - as well as whether a losing campaign would hurt his political future. But those who have talked to him expect he'll decide to run. He's already starting to take some key steps, meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in important states, like House Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina, and leaving "Hi, I'm Barack Obama" messages on the voice mails of elected officials in both New Hampshire and Iowa...
...gray staff van. Was it the President? Or the Vice President? Nah--it was just the Iraq Study Group, Washington's new shadow government, on another emergency run, this time from the White House, where its members told George W. Bush how to get out of Iraq, up to Capitol Hill, where they preached bipartisanship and renewed diplomacy--as well as the promise of withdrawal from Iraq by 2008. It's not often that 10 unelected people, all in their 60s and 70s, can supersede the elected government of the U.S., but last week the panel, led by ex--Secretary...
...Israeli leaders, meanwhile, along with their most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill, are alarmed both at the prospect of a U.S. diplomatic dance with Iran and Syria, and by the ISG's assertion that prospects for success in Iraq and elsewhere in the region depend on Washington's ability to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, commenting on the report Thursday, told reporters: "The attempt to create linkage between the Iraqi issue and the Mideast issue - we have a different view...
...much has changed in the Administration's policy positions. And despite the urgent pleas of such key U.S. allies as Jordan's King Abdullah - and even Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - for a speedy resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there would likely be a strong backlash on Capitol Hill against any move to tie progress in Iraq to progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front...