Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explicit policy on purchases of Russian space expertise, services and hardware is clearly overdue, and Congress is putting pressure on the Administration to devise one. At week's end Atwood went to Capitol Hill to discuss the matter, and gave signs of relenting on some deals. The Defense Department's purchase of the Topaz, in fact, may be approved as early as this week. Says a senior congressional source: "Several of the top people are now aware they have...
...illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
...Capitol Steps is like a college singing group gone wild. Wildly crazy, wildly professional and, of course, wildly political...
...three founders, Elaina Newport, Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala, presented the first version of The Capitol Steps at a Senate office Christmas party in 1981. "Like most things in Congress," the program announces, "they never knew when to stop." The Steps' reputation expanded beyond their Washington audience and victims, and they are now heard regularly on National Public Radio...
...atmosphere in a congressional hearing room doesn't get much testier than this. Secretary of State James Baker III appeared on Capitol Hill last week to announce the Administration's terms for the $10 billion in loan guarantees that Israel is seeking to help resettle Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Taking a gamble no previous Administration has been willing to contemplate seriously, Baker laid out a blunt policy line to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Israel has two choices, he said. The U.S. would back the loans for five years with no strings attached -- but only...