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...Washington A Full Plate on Capitol Hill Members of Congress returned to a busy legislative session Sept. 8 following their summer recess. Their top priority: health-care reform, an issue lawmakers heard an earful about during raucous town-hall meetings in August. The key items this fall...
...does, however, have a last-ditch move that it can make with France and Britain, or even alone. Legislators on Capitol Hill are preparing a tough bill that would impose sanctions on third-country companies that supply the gasoline imports on which Iran relies for about one-third of its consumption. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard Berman, a California Democrat, has said he will mark up his bill next month. But the fewer allies that sign on for such tough sanctions, the more those sanctions are likely to hurt the U.S. rather than Iran...
...currently chairman of the Sub-Committee on Capitol Security, and a member of the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and House Administration. His senate-bid announcement was crowded by press from both local and national outlets...
...that is not going to meet their test of health-care security." The problem, of course, is paying for more subsidies. In its current version, the bill actually shrinks the deficit by about $50 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. For many deficit hawks on Capitol Hill, unfunded liabilities are out of the question...
...plot of The Lost Symbol churns forward with a brutalist energy that makes character but a flesh appendage on its iron machine. It's fun, but you feel a little bruised afterward. Langdon must ransack the Capitol for his missing friend Peter Solomon, the one who lost the hand, and for a hidden Masonic pyramid, which is the key to some mystical wisdom that will turn man into god, which is something that Mal'akh, the tattooed nut job, has a keen interest in. Langdon is joined by the head of the CIA's Office of Security, who for some...