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...this all-too-plausible scenario, DC would see its authority usurped—albeit legitimately. For this reason, the Constitution should be amended to rectify the problem of DC’s lack of representation, whether by granting the nation’s capitol statehood or by abolishing the current rules granting Congress the authority to veto DC’s laws. In the meantime, however, Congress should stay on the sidelines and let the progress of equal rights continue unimpeded in Washington...
...several months, Capitol Hill has been ground zero for the battle over President Obama's ambitious effort to reform the health-care system. But there are growing indications that if and when Congress actually manages to pass a bill, the real action may well be in the states, which could have a surprising degree of autonomy in determining how they implement the federal legislation, and whether it delivers on the promise of curbing soaring costs and providing coverage for the nearly 50 million uninsured. Though most everyone recognizes that the Federal Government can't impose a rigid approach, some critics...
...Obama Administration has been trying to figure out how to close the notorious detention facility. In his first week on the job the President declared that Gitmo would be shut down by the end of the year. But fulfilling that promise has proved a major challenge, and Democrats on Capitol Hill are divided over whether to help. (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...
...Obama Administration had sought talks with Iran since taking office in January but had been rebuffed until now. Under growing pressure from Capitol Hill and allies in Europe and Israel to show results for his engagement strategy, Obama had warned Iran that failure to discuss international concerns over its nuclear program would be met with an escalation of sanctions. U.S. and European diplomats had taken great care to lower expectations for the Geneva meeting - the metric of success, they stressed, would be the tone of the meeting and Tehran's willingness to engage on the issues of most concern...
Managing Michigan's crisis is the state's governor, Jennifer M. Granholm. Talking recently with TIME in the parlor of her second-floor office in the state's capitol building, Granholm said that preventing a government shutdown before midnight Wednesday, the end of the state's fiscal year, "is going to require a level of cuts that people have not had before...