Word: capitol
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Nevada senator Harry Reid's capitol office is decorated--incongruously, given his taciturn demeanor--with large portraits of two fabulously flamboyant Americans, Andrew Jackson and Mark Twain. The Jackson portrait is dynamic, wind whipped, but slightly obligatory. Old Hickory, the first President who was not an aristocrat, was the brawling founder of the modern Democratic Party, and Reid, newly elected Senate minority leader, is now the highest-ranking Democrat in Washington...
...Governor has brought a more fun-loving approach to Sacramento than his predecessor. The state capitol is now a tourist attraction. Visitors, many from overseas, flow through the metal detectors at the building entrance and wander the corridors right up to the doors of his office, hoping for a glimpse of the Gubernator. "He is very mindful of that, so he walks about a lot," says Pat Clarey, his chief of staff. "It is kind of fun walking the hallways with him as the cameras go off." Schwarzenegger's mantra to the office staff is borrowed from the movies"Action...
Nevada Senator Harry Reid's capitol office is decorated-incongruously, given his taciturn demeanor-with large portraits of two fabulously flamboyant Americans, Andrew Jackson and Mark Twain. The Jackson portrait is dynamic, wind whipped, but slightly obligatory. Old Hickory, the first President who was not an aristocrat, was the brawling founder of the modern Democratic Party, and Reid, newly elected Senate minority leader, is now the highest-ranking Democrat in Washington...
Freshman representatives of the United States Congress received advice from longtime legislators about how to navigate a bitterly divided Capitol Hill yesterday morning during the Kennedy School of Government’s biennial conference for newly elected members of Congress...
...we’ve heard how California’s der gropen fuehrer has turned his considerable charms on sleepy, star-struck Sacramento—that under a canvas tent outside the state capitol, surrounded by sculptures and pictures of himself, the self-described “biggest star in the world” shares Cuban cigars with assemblymen from places like Oxnard and Fullerton. Occasionally, he even offers them rides back to their districts on his Gulfstream jet, and lets them bask in the light of his Hollywood-produced 67 percent approval rating in front of a hometown crowd...