Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ford's Theater, not far from Capitol Hill, a stage version of A Christmas Carol is playing this week. When a delegation of Londoners comes calling at Scrooge's office seeking alms for the poor, literature's best-known misanthrope shoots back his famous retort: Are there no prisons? No workhouses? No orphanages? On some nights the line, with its obvious echo of the latest ideas from Congress, has been bringing gasps and mutters from the crowd. In the months to come, Scrooge is a role Gingrich and his followers won't be afraid to assume. The only question...
...edgy mood permeates the West Wing. Senior officials renowned for optimism on the bleakest of days are spiteful in private and pessimistic in public. Party leaders wonder whether Clinton can or should seek a second term -- or whether to turn to Al Gore instead. Agency executives and Democrats on - Capitol Hill complain that decision making has nearly halted while Clinton remains huddled with top aides. "We're in uncharted waters," said a White House official, "and nobody has their bearings...
House Republicans announced plans to eliminate funding for 28 "legislative service organizations," otherwise known as caucuses. The groups, which include the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the House Republican Study Committee, receive taxpayer funding and occupy Capitol Hill offices. Black Caucus chairman Kweisi Mfume called the move "congressional ethnic and philosophical cleansing...
...that the downgrading and reshuffling of the agenda does not reflect badly on Mrs. Clinton. As a senior official explained last week, Panetta's decision "was less about Hillary than Ira," as in Ira Magaziner, the aide who masterminded the Clinton plan and whose manner alienated potential allies on Capitol Hill. Today the First Lady acknowledges that any reform that might emerge from the new Congress must take an "incremental approach" -- the kind of change proposed by Republicans as a counter to the Clinton overhaul...
...however. Or perhaps only in the strictest sense. Because, in truth, Election 1994 was not about sending leaders to Washington; it was about sending a message to Washington regarding how bad we thought our leaders were. It followed a campaign in which a picture of someone alongside Washington's Capitol dome was tantamount to a smear and in which all but the most atavistic incumbents abstained from leaderly chest beating for fear it might mark them as "insiders." If we could have sent no one to Congress, we would have. Those whom we did send, needless to say, were...