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...didn't risk figure into the formula written after 9/11 to bolster homeland security? In facing al-Qaeda, we knew we were dealing with an organization that sought mass casualties and headlines. In the confused days after 9/11, when Capitol Hill offices were closed after several were contaminated by letters containing anthrax, a small group of House and Senate leaders got together with Bush Administration staff members in a corner of the Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept...
...change in those formulas would require Congressional approval, and reaction on Capitol Hill has largely split along regional lines. New England Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., and Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., have both said they oppose the reallocation of campus-based financial...
What the President didn't know was that at that moment, Kerry's campaign was planning a surprise of its own. Tipped off by Democrats on Capitol Hill that the appointment was in the works, Kerry's staff had quickly done a LexisNexis search on the proposed nominee, Anthony Raimondo, and discovered that the Nebraska manufacturing executive laid off 75 U.S. workers in 2002 while building a $3 million factory in Beijing. That might make it awkward for him to champion keeping jobs at home. Two hours before the Commerce Department was scheduled to announce Raimondo's nomination last week...
...Mitchell are among those whom Kerry speaks with regularly, and his advisers believe all would be on the short list for Kerry's National Security Adviser or Secretary of State. Advisers also say Kerry's commitment to intelligence reform would require picking a Republican Secretary of Defense to win Capitol Hill's support in the inevitable battle with the Pentagon, which controls 90% of the spy budget. They have floated John McCain's name as a contender. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...