Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...representative also criticized some of hiscolleagues on Capitol Hill for supporting specialinterests at the expense of their constituents...
Roll Call, the newspaper that serves Capitol Hill, has sponsored a contest soliciting advertising slogans intended to improve Congress's image. The not- so-compelling results...
...number of other Republicans, come across as ill advised to those who believe that however scandalous the Ames case may now seem, its significance is eclipsed by the infinitely greater importance of supporting Russian democracy. "The rush to judgment of the last couple of days, primarily here on Capitol Hill," said Kansas Representative Dan Glickman, chairman of the House intelligence committee, "to suspend aid to * Russia because of this case is misguided. That would have far more profound and damaging ramifications on this critical relationship -- and thus on ourselves -- than the damage done by Mr. Ames...
...timing could hardly have been worse for Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey. With the embarrassing Aldrich Ames spy case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. The small hearing room in the Rayburn Building was jammed, and Woolsey's bald head reflected the glare of television lights as he announced he would have nothing to say in open session about the details of the Ames case. The committee chairman, Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, accepted...
...their strict new governess, Mary Poppins. In an Administration that likes to think big and play messy, Ickes is devoted to detail and driven to discipline. While he has by no means reversed the fortunes of the President's health-care reform bill -- last week many legislators on Capitol Hill were sounding taps again for central elements of Clinton's plan -- the 54-year-old New York attorney has brought to the White House skills that have often been scarce: planning, organization and political fire fighting. "He's not afraid to make a decision, take responsibility," said Pat Griffin...