Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Yard's main liaison to Capitol Hill, however, is Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck. A former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Shattuck has sparred with the Reagan and Bush administrations for such just causes as more federal financial aid and freer access to classified information...
...more then 4,000 protesters, including Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, then Senator Lowell Weicker and singer Stevie Wonder, would follow them to jail. Another 5,000 were arrested at South African consulates around the country. By that time the movement had developed powerful friends on Capitol Hill, including Kennedy and his fellow Democratic Senators Alan Cranston of California and Paul Simon of Illinois. They saw in the antiapartheid movement an opportunity to strike a blow against the otherwise unassailable Reagan...
This rhetoric, while tame by the standards of the 1988 campaign, comes at an odd moment: two new reports last week showed the budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes...
...cold war is over. Intellectuals, diplomats and government officials agree. So does business; last week General Motors signed a $1 billion deal to sell auto parts to the U.S.S.R. Now would somebody please tell Congress? Old thinking dies hard on Capitol Hill, and there are days when the lawmakers seem to have missed the news...
Support for the NEA is stronger in the Senate than in the House, probably because the whole House is up for re-election this year, whereas only a third of the Senate is. Plenty of folk on Capitol Hill have been sandbagged into acting as though a vote for the NEA is a vote for blasphemy, pederasty and buggery. They should think again. And so should those who imagine support of the arts would be better served by putting the NEA's budget in the hands of the states, an alternative Republican proposal that would trivialize arts funding...