Word: capitols
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...especially irritates some American lawmakers that China is pressing for permanent most-favored-nation status, a guarantee of minimum tariffs. China is the only one of the 191 most favored nations whose status is renewed each year by a vote in Congress. That ensures a humiliating annual review on Capitol Hill of how Beijing punishes dissidents, suppresses Tibet and sells missiles to rogue states. Along with winning permanent MFN status, China wants to be admitted to the World Trade Organization, a goal the U.S. and other nations are obstructing until China lowers trade barriers...
...used some conventional means of cultivating favor, like inviting members of Congress for get-acquainted trips. Ma Yuzhen, China's personable former ambassador to Britain, was put in charge of improving his nation's image abroad. At the Chinese embassy in Washington, more staff members were assigned to handle Capitol Hill...
...kill count, which already exceeds 1,000 this year, has outraged animal lovers and the local Native American tribes--some of whom showed up on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last week to protest the slaughter. Many are blaming Yellowstone's snowmobiling tourists for the massacre. By opening the park to unrestricted numbers of the machines, they say, and meticulously grading and packing the deep snow on the roads to accommodate riders, the Park Service has inadvertently made it easier for the bison to move around in search of food, thus increasing their survival rate and boosting their population...
Lott and Clinton have already filled this moment with suspense and promise: the President himself traveled to Capitol Hill to open negotiations with leaders of the new Congress, and in their own risky goodwill gesture, Lott and the G.O.P. have agreed to work from the President's budget rather than write their own. But last week provided an even more striking example of the pragmatic detente between the two men: after months of private conversations with the President, Lott went public with a proposal that would have the effect of restraining Social Security and other entitlements. He called...
...Ickes was also carrying something of a grudge--but was it grudge enough to engage in political payback? Apparently. That's what some concluded last week after watching the man whom Clinton very publicly dumped after the election hand over volumes of paper to Republican investigators on Capitol Hill. And the chivalrous tone of his rhetoric--"It was an honor to work for him, and it is still an honor to work for him," he told the Washington Post--protests a bit too much, laying bare some wounded pride. But the former deputy chief of staff says his cooperation with...