Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to his large personal investment in the department and his students, Peterson has established himself as a serious scholar of American government with his book Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill From Eisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. The book--which advances a new theory of presidential-congressional interactions--introduces a "tandem institutions" approach to understanding the two branches of Government. Using both statistical analyses and scores of in-depth interviews as evidence for his theory, Peterson forcefully rejects the popular "presidency-centered perspective" that views the president as the only real force in legislation and demonstrates...
...protesters marched from the Capitol up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument, demanding that President Nixon end the war. They carried coffins printed with the names of the war dead. Hundreds of paratroopers with loaded rifles stood on alert inside the Justice Department and the Pentagon. The White House was surrounded by Washington city buses parked bumper to bumper as a barricade...
...feverish partisan atmosphere of an election year almost guarantees that neither Bush's prescription nor any other competing scheme will be enacted before November. At least 30 different health-care bills are under consideration on Capitol Hill, and every presidential candidate has brandished his own proposal. Most of the ideas fall into three broad categories...
...Capitol Hill, a House Judiciary subcommittee approved a bill halting the exodus until violence in Haiti is sufficiently reduced so that no returnee faces "persecution or politically motivated violence." But with Congress in recess until Feb. 18, the Administration has time to return thousands more Haitians before the bill can be put to both houses for a vote...
Peterson in the author of LegislatingTogether: The White House and Capitol Hill fromEisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. Hehas also written article and chapters in otherpublications, and is currently working on twobooks, he said...