Word: capitol
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Barely a day goes by on Capitol Hill without some politician expressing a good measure of righteous indignation. It's less common for virtually every member of Congress, Democrat and Republican alike, to have the same target for his or her carefully calibrated anger. But when all that talk actually gets channeled into immediate action, then you know that something really historic is happening in Washington - and that Congress (and the public) may well come to regret...
...unprecedented productivity on Capitol Hill this week stems from the continuing, unanimous outrage over the $165 million in bonuses handed out by AIG, which the government has funneled more than a hundred billion dollars into since last summer. At his congressional testimony earlier this week, embattled AIG CEO Edward Liddy said he'd asked employees to give half of their bonuses back, and that some had already voluntarily given all of it back. And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who had signed off on the contractually promised bonuses after concluding that the government had no legal recourse to prevent them from...
...This bill is nothing more than an attempt for everybody to cover their butt up here on Capitol Hill," said House Republican leader John Boehner, one of the few party bigwigs on either side of the aisle to openly question the wisdom of the legislative rush. "It's full of loopholes. A lot of these people who are getting these bonuses likely live in London. And it's not clear how raising this tax is going to recover that money...
...Capitol Hill, many longtime Cheney watchers say his performance was typical of the man. "Much of what he said was self-serving," Leahy told TIME by e-mail, "and just like the old days, he seems to believe that the best defense of his record is to launch new attacks." (See America's worst Vice Presidents...
...unilateral Executive Branch action, while mandated by a Supreme Court decision in April 2007 that said the EPA must decide how to regulate greenhouse gases, upsets many members on Capitol Hill. The EPA "said they have the ability to do this under the law. The law doesn't come from the Supreme Court; the law comes from Congress," Nelson said. "If they want to go, 'Giddyap,' we're in the position to go, 'Whoa,' and pass legislation if necessary. If the administrator wants to ignore the intent of Congress, the administrator takes a sizable risk...