Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate habit of saying things he doesn't mean -- or failing to carry them out if he does mean them. In his State of the Union speech last January, he grandly promised to reform the nation's health- care system. He has yet to present a plan to Capitol Hill. Administration officials now admit that Bush is unlikely to propose a comprehensive health package this year. Reason: he is convinced Congress won't pass it. Another lost State of the Union proposal was a plan to raise the personal exemption for taxpayers by $500 a child for every family...
...RATE THEY'RE FLEEING CAPITOL HILL, LAWmakers may make the term-limits movement obsolete. Already, 47 members have said they will quit the House at the end of this term, and 11 have been thrown out in primary elections; the exodus is the largest since 49 House members left voluntarily in 1978. A few say they are leaving because recent scandals have driven public regard for Congress to a new low. Throw in the effects of redistricting, and up to one- third of the 435 House members may be newcomers in November...
...single term if the deficit had not been reduced; he was as good as his word. The latest: Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth, also quitting after one term. Like New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman, who bailed out last month, Wirth cited his frustration over deadlock and partisan bickering on Capitol Hill. But like many fellow incumbents, he may also have foreseen a tough re-election campaign. In 1989 Wirth sought to ease restrictions on junk-bond trading; his opponents point out that the bankrupt investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert -- which specialized in junk bonds -- contributed $41,000 to Wirth's campaigns...
...caucus rejected Foley's proposal, and the Speaker abandoned it. Some caucus members wanted to protect Russ, a back-slapping extrovert who had built a network of bipartisan support by doling out favors to members during his 25- year career on Capitol Hill...
...House Budget chairman Leon Panetta, went to Foley and asked if he was gay. Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts who is openly gay, told Russ to stop discussing the FBI report. Russ himself has denied ever spreading stories about the report. As the whispers swirled around Capitol Hill, a staff member at the Republican National Committee wrote an insinuating memorandum to state party officials that described Foley as "coming out of the liberal closet." In private meetings with colleagues and at press conferences, Foley denied being homosexual...