Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four hours after Clinton spoke those words, conference co-chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan appeared with Senate majority leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Thomas Foley at the Capitol to announce agreement on the "broad outline" of a deal that cuts $250 billion in spending, raises $243 billion in new revenues and promises to reduce the deficit about $490 billion over the next five years. While some details remained to be worked out Monday, the big breakthrough came Thursday night when Moynihan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski agreed to accept the Senate proposal for a 4.3 cents...
...House Ways and Means Committee faces the threat of prosecution for embezzlement, and his senior aides are experiencing a grave crisis of confidence. Concerned and panicky, some employees of the Congressman who have been with him for many of his 16 terms are working the halls on Capitol Hill looking for new jobs and angling for yet-to-be-filled Administration posts. Rostenkowski has denied that he engaged in any illegal or unethical conduct...
...recall the "season of service" urged in President Clinton's inaugural address, still fewer do on Capitol Hill. The latest of four major filibusters, the delay of the national service bill, only underlines how short that season was for many lawmakers...
...showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state flag. Georgia Governor Zell Miller's proposal to "purge the dark side of the Confederacy" -- again the battle emblem -- from that state flag failed earlier this year...
...some hot Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), in which privileged players are given the chance to buy shares in emerging companies just before they are offered to the general public. The revelation of Foley's sweet deals by Roll Call, a spry newspaper published twice a week that covers Capitol Hill, shed light on how some IPOs are doled out to a select few while ordinary folks are never given a chance to invest...