Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time most people moved back to matters nearer at hand--getting ahead, getting settled, getting more sleep, anything but "that." Somehow Congress did not hear. The tobacco deal collapsed; campaign-finance reform died; the patients' bill of rights was shelved. Through it all, the Republicans on Capitol Hill stayed on message. Too bad for them that the message was all Monica all the time...
...accruing the wisdom and effectiveness that only a long tenure can provide. They want the term limits revoked. Another idea being floated: a pay raise for House members, something Livingston has supported in the past. But lawmakers shouldn?t get their hopes up. Said a GOP official on Capitol Hill, referring to the idea of revoking term limits for committee chairmen: "That'll fly like a lead zeppelin...
...does it keep growing in a period of intensive government cost cutting? For starters, it has good p.r. and an army of bureaucrats working to expand it. A corporate-welfare bureaucracy of an estimated 11,000 organizations and agencies has grown up, with access to city halls, statehouses, the Capitol and the White House. They conduct seminars, conferences and training sessions. They have their own trade associations. They publish their own journals and newsletters. They create attractive websites on the Internet. And they never call it "welfare." They call it "economic incentives" or "empowerment zones" or "enterprise zones...
...first focus when he arrives on Capitol Hill: "I'm going to learn how to work within the house establishment," he told The Crimson in an interview. "I wasn't elected to destroy the establishment. I'd like to try and change...
...bottom line is that there are now 27 states in which the press corps [at the state capitol] has been seriously down-sized," Fouhy said...