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...based on interviews with released detainees, families of detainees and their lawyers. Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' opened to wide acclaim, transferred to the West End and was also produced in New York City. Last spring a reading was staged for members of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill. "What Nick is about is, 'What can we be doing next?'" says Tricycle general manager Mary Lauder. "'What should we be tackling? What can we change...
McCain should have stuck to his commitment to debate Obama and help Americans make an informed decision in November—not jumped into a delicate political entanglement in Washington. His ploy—which will only throw Capitol Hill into chaos and disrupt both parties’ election process—does little to put “country first.” We can only hope that Americans will see through these shenanigans for the sorry stunt they...
John McCain arrived on Capitol Hill early Thursday afternoon just as a bipartisan group of senators and representatives were announcing they had reached an agreement on the broad outlines of a bill to bail out Wall Street. For a moment, as the press conference broke up, members of the media traveling with McCain mingled with reporters covering the Hill. "Wait, there's a deal?" one surprised McCain reporter asked his congressional colleague...
...players at this point are House Republicans - a group that normally is all but irrelevant on Capitol Hill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi - mindful of the electoral disaster that befell her party after it passed Bill Clinton's controversial budget plan in 1993 without any GOP votes - has said she will not bring any markets stabilization package to the floor without a majority of House Republicans on board. With constituent telephone calls to congressional offices running 100 to 1 against the proposed $700 billion Bush Administration bailout plan, the last thing Pelosi wants to do is force her own members to walk...
...ACTION While Barack Obama was cool, confident and deliberate, John McCain was initially frantic and overheated and seemed as panicked as his advisers--who recognized their campaign could go down the economic drain. Obama was perhaps a tad cautious and reserved but stayed in sync with fellow Dems on Capitol Hill by letting the political benefits of nationwide alarm boost their case. Barring disaster, every aspect of the campaign will now be seen through the lens of the economy, an issue on which Obama and his party are more trusted by voters. Any hope the Republicans may have...