Word: capitol
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this hot August morning, the Capitol has been abandoned by the congressional combatants. The route to Majority Leader Robert Dole's office is uncrowded and cool, and the stone busts of Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson whisper from the shadows about great ambitions achieved and denied...
...people to turn on George Bush's war in Iraq, Representative Walter Jones was among the least likely. A conservative Republican whose North Carolina district includes the massive Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, Jones led the charge to convert French fries into "freedom fries" in Capitol Hill cafeterias after France refused to support the war. But last week Jones co-sponsored legislation calling on Bush to declare victory and start bringing the troops home by October 2006. Jones, who has written more than 1,300 letters to families of killed service members, says, "What else is there left for America...
...After weeks where his press conferences were standing-room only events with reporters firing sharp questions about his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, things have become much quieter for Tom DeLay. On Tuesday, with many empty chairs in the conference room on the first floor of the Capitol where he holds his weekly press availabilities, DeLay focused on laying out the House's Republican leadership's agenda for the week and received only one question about his ethics troubles. The Majority Leader even brought up the issue first. Asked by a reporter about the G8 conference next month in Scotland...
...most famous whistle-blower wants to go to Capitol Hill. Coleen Rowley, who retired last December three years after exposing the agency's investigative lapses before 9/11, tells TIME she's laying out a campaign strategy for a run at Minnesota's Second Congressional District seat. She'll meet this week with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington to discuss how much money it can contribute to the $2 million war chest she expects she'll need in an effort to unseat Republican John Kline. Though Rowley, 50, would start as a distinct underdog in the heavily Republican district...
Rowley, who first toyed with the idea of running in 2004, objects to Kline's support of the war in Iraq and his "lockstep" voting with President Bush and she vows to bring "personal responsibility and authenticity" to Capitol Hill. But she's still wary of political consultants who have advised her to apply makeup, upgrade her wardrobe and update her hairstyle. "It's just my gut instinct that it's all wrong for me," she says. "It's not who I am." Rowley, who since retirement has been spending time with her husband Ross and training for five triathlons...