Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with opinion polls and have learned not to ignore the Rush Limbaughs of the world, with their ability to marshal rage over topics ranging from Hillary to the House post office. Public feedback fills Washington fax machines, phones and E-mail boxes. From C-SPAN's studios just off Capitol Hill, lawmakers chat with callers live -- including callers who have been monitoring their work via C-SPAN cameras on Capitol Hill. More messages from the real world pass through the Beltway barrier than ever before. And contrary to popular belief, politicians pay attention. What we have today is much more...
...Hamblin, a hot-button black conservative, on "the Nazi point of view" comment that cost Christina Jeffrey a Capitol Hill job: "Being a bigot does not void your First Amendment rights." The self-styled "Black Avenger," who is syndicated to 63 stations nationwide, has also railed against gun control and even against James Brady -- "the cripple guy" -- for promoting...
Already the implications are being felt as far away as Washington. With Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill, top officials know that further reversals might inspire the G.O.P. to unleash a "Who Lost Russia?" debate. They wonder if the fond hopes the U.S. expressed for democracy, reform and Yeltsin might be going up in Grozny's smoke. The officials have conducted several secret reviews of their Russia policy since last spring, asking if Yeltsin would survive and whether the U.S. was too close to him. When Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in Geneva this week...
...Delta flight to the capital, landing at Dulles International Airport at about 1 p.m., en route to more parties, more meetings. But there was a difference. Gingrich was on his way to becoming second in the line of succession -- after Al Gore -- to the presidency. Immediately upon his arrival, Capitol security surrounded him with a constant cordon. The populist, however, kept an eye on symbolism. Instead of traveling in a line of sedans, Gingrich packed himself, his aides and his security into a Plymouth Suburban -- the limo of the new American order...
...Clintons don't understand as they make nice with the Gingriches is that the offense is not that the First Lady hasn't been gracious enough but that she has presumed too much. As Hillary was inviting Gingrich and Mom to the White House, buttons were spotted on Capitol Hill...