Word: capitol
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Tauzin now views the June 12 letter as an attempt to mislead the committee. "They tried to sandbag us," says Johnson. Stewart spokeswoman Allyn Magrino refused to comment on a possible Capitol Hill appearance. If Stewart comes in for a Tauzin meeting, it will be a return engagement. In 2000, he appeared on her show to promote his Cajun cookbook, Cook 'N Tell. This time he wants to swap more than recipes...
...Across the Capitol, majority leader Tom Daschle's forces are worried that big new promises would raise an uncomfortable question as they struggle to maintain their one-vote hold on the chamber: If these are such great ideas, why hasn't the Democratic Senate passed them? An in-your-face assault on Bush's economic policies would reopen one issue that national Democratic leaders have been eager to avoid: Would Democrats cancel the remaining installments...
...first conversation that wandered this path struck me as somewhat insulting. But two or three identical conversations later, and having discovered that some congressional interns must give visiting constituents tours of the Capitol, I’ve become slightly more understanding of the assumption, but only slightly...
...Cheney's remarks may be directed primarily at Capitol Hill, where lawmakers insist the White House has yet to make a convincing case that the risks of going to war are outweighed by the risks of not going to war. Saddam's PR offensive won't carry the day in Congress, but it may make a difference with his real target audience: his Arab neighbors. Baghdad knows the U.S. will find it difficult to go to war without regional support, both politically and strategically. Washington needs the Gulf states, Jordan and Turkey as staging areas, but it may need their...
...bigger picture has become impossible to ignore. Bush's timetable is being revised for him by an economy that keeps sputtering, fresh violence in the other troubled quarter of the Middle East, where Palestinian bombers claimed five Americans along with Israeli lives, and new questions about his strategy from Capitol Hill. The pause also came as the Administration's bitterly divided camps on Iraq-one pragmatic, the other jihadist-squared off in another round of the battle they have been waging for weeks via the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post...