Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, spent the day downplaying reports that he said four more Senate Democrats will retire next year, leaving a threatening seven seats open toGOP challengesin 1996. In Thursday's editions of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, Kerrey was quoted as naming Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Howell Heflin of Alabama, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and David Pryor of Arkansas as potential retirees. Today, Kerrey demurred: "There are additional members who have not decided whether or not they're going to run for re-election." Pell, 76, said...
...House, things are likely to get markedly rougher for the Republicans in the next few weeks. In fact, G.O.P. leaders are probably facing their first defeat at the end of the month, when the House votes on congressional term limits-a concept wildly popular everywhere but on Capitol Hill. They had originally planned to take up the issue this week but postponed it after discovering that no fewer than nine different factions were battling over what form the constitutional amendment should take. And those were the people who support the idea...
...says decorum is gone from Capitol Hill? After a week of Senate deliberations that might have been mistaken for a schoolyard rumble as they prepared to vote on their balanced-budget amendment, the members arranged themselves into something like a class picture. All were seated decorously at their antique mahogany desks. As the clerk called their names, each rose separately to announce his or her vote. Republican Hank Brown of Colorado even put his hand over his heart as he said, "Aye." You could almost forget that most of them still had slingshots in their back pockets...
...after his lesbian half-sister Candace visited Capitol Hill to lobby for gay rights, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said workers who are fired because they are homosexual should have no right to sue in federal court. During his daily press conference, the Speaker applied a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" principle to the issue, saying that while employers shouldn't ask, employees should have no recourse. The head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political group represented by Candace Gingrich, speculated that the Speaker is "under pressure from extremists" to make such comments...
...Wednesday afternoon, if current plans hold, the little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...