Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giving content to the "one last chance" aspect of the latest U.N. resolution, Bush had, for the time being at least, confounded his domestic opponents -- especially those on Capitol Hill. Few will dispute the President's assertion that he is attempting to "go the extra mile for peace." Few will seek to constrain his handling of the crisis, at least not until the Baker-Saddam meeting is concluded -- and by then it may be too late to again cry "Wait...
...largest direct mailers. In addition to the literature it sends its 32 million members, the A.A.R.P. each year puts into the mail stream 50 million pieces simply prospecting for new adherents. The N.R.A. generates up to 12 million pieces monthly. Each group has the capacity to flood Capitol Hill with thousands of letters when it feels its interests are threatened. Earlier this year the N.R.A. sent out 10 million "membership alert" mailings, urging gun owners to oppose legislation that sought to ban semiautomatic assault weapons and impose a waiting period on the purchase of handguns. Neither restriction passed Congress...
...country's biggest users of the mails. Through the franking privilege, which enables members of Congress to use their signatures as postage, elected officials can deluge voters with mail at taxpayers' expense. During the past presidential election year, 805 million pieces of political literature spewed from Capitol Hill, at a cost of about $113 million...
...raise taxes. He alienated many women by trying to impose strict limits on abortion. That played into the hands of Lawton Chiles, a former three-term U.S. Senator, who surfaced after a 15-month hiatus from politics to mount a corny but believable populist bid for the state capitol...
...unpopular on Capitol Hill, and his handling of budget and campaign strategies has drawn critical howls. But John Sununu is in no danger of being replaced as White House chief of staff. In fact, George Bush will rely on his top aide's conservative instincts even more heavily as the President turns sharply partisan in 1991 in preparation for the 1992 campaign. "Sununu," a Bush intimate said last week, "isn't going anywhere...