Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress hardly acted on its own initiative. In fact, a good bit of credit for these student-friendly provisions ought go to our own President Rudenstine and other University lobbyists, who, without fanfare, ply the halls of the Capitol on behalf of the needs of America's colleges and their customers. Rudenstine himself sent five letters to Massachusetts Congressional representatives and Harvard alumni on the Hill...
...renewal of higher education policy, and Harvard had worked hard to put its own stamp on the finished product. The University's Washington lobbyists worked overtime on certain points of the bill, and President Neil L. Rudenstine sent five different letters aimed at persuading alumni and Massachusetts delegates on Capitol Hill...
Harvard has been a major part of this counter-attack. Last year, President Neil L. Rudenstine played a critical role in defeating the anti-affirmative action Riggs Amendment on Capitol Hill...
Whisper it low -- bipartisanship is coming back in fashion. Just when Capitol Hill looked as if it couldn't get any more riven over the Clinton impeachment process, the Republican leadership has made a number of concessions to disgruntled Democrats -- and a tiny knot of centrist lawmakers from both sides of the highly partisan House Judiciary Committee are making a show, at least, of working together...
...President's political team was waving polls all over Capitol Hill last week that showed his approval rating unshaken by the Starr report. But the opinion that matters at this juncture belongs to a sliver of Americans: those who tend to vote in midterm elections and live in the 30 to 40 congressional districts where, for now, Democrats and Republicans still have a real contest...