Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capitol Hill Republicans today vowed to re-write President Clinton's $1.6 trillion spending plan because it projects some $200 billion in annual deficits and fails to balance the budget by 2002. The President defended his budget in part by claiming some of the new spending--$1 billion of it--would go to fight illegal immigration. But the major budget battle lines were being drawn over Medicare, one of several popular entitlements that Clinton did not touch in his proposal to trim $144 billion over five years. Some Democrats also gave Clinton's budget a tepid review, complaining that...
...year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...
...ritualistic hospitality accorded the President quickly evaporated following his address, as Capitol Hill returned to the nitty-gritty of governance. Republicans and some Democrats let it be known that they were prepared to repeal the recently enacted ban on assault weapons, the President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase...
...LATE HOWARD SMITH Portrait of racist Representative is segregated from Capitol Hill...
...year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...