Word: capitol
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when it comes to putting powerful people on the hot seat, there's no one tougher and more tenacious than veteran California Congressman Henry Waxman. In the Democrats' wilderness years, Waxman fashioned himself as his party's chief inquisitor. Working with one of the most highly regarded staffs on Capitol Hill, he has spent the past eight years churning out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports, blasting the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress on everything from faulty prewar intelligence and flaws in missile defense to the flu-vaccine shortage and arsenic in drinking water...
...Republican officials briefed by the White House tell TIME that the President will have something big to say in coming weeks. The President plans to combine the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group with findings from his Administration and advice from Capitol Hill into what is being dubbed "a way forward" for Iraq...
...reception thrown by Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol a week after the Democrats prevailed in congressional elections was a party some power players had been waiting more than a decade to attend. The fête was for newly elected freshmen lawmakers, but Pelosi's invited guests included big-name Democratic lobbyists like Jack Quinn, Tony Podesta and Steve Elmendorf. Said a partygoer: "I thought to myself, they're all back, all the same old faces. It was just like old times...
Confronted with this evolving landscape, hedge funds have had to grow up. You can see it in the way managers trek to Washington for Capitol Hill meet-and-greets. You can see it in the way big-name banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup poach existing shops and expand their hedge-fund practices. You can see it in the run-up of bloated, billion-dollar-plus firms. You can see it in how hedgies talk about their industry as if it is an industry, and not an unrelated mishmash of investment strategies...
...coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters on faucets, install air ionizers in our homes and lather ourselves with antibacterial soap. "We used to measure contaminants down to the parts per million," says Dan McGinn, a former Capitol Hill staff member and now a private risk consultant. "Now it's parts per billion...