Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing all the painful things while we lend them the spectrum for 12 years. Why shouldn't they pay for it?" Dole and Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler have argued that these channels could easily be rented or auctioned. Though powerful media lobbying has squelched that idea on Capitol Hill and in the Administration up to now, TIME's John Dickerson reports the issue will likely be revisited now that Dole has taken a strong stand. "Contrary to many reports, the bill is in trouble," he says, "and Dole's intervention will have a big impact. Senator John McCain...
...first 100 days. Gingrich was already worrying about maintaining momentum. So he invited small groups of CEOS--including Jack Welch of General Electric, Jack Smith from General Motors and the Business Roundtable chairman John Snow of CSX--to dinner in a first-floor dining room in the Capitol. The executives had all presided over major downsizing in their companies, and all drew the same lesson when the bloodbath was over: they wished they had done more...
Placing his simple breakfast (a banana and an unbuttered bagel) on an end table in his Capitol Hill office, Newt Gingrich sat down with half a dozen TIME editors and correspondents early last Wednesday morning. During the ensuing 90 minutes, Gingrich reviewed his accomplishments and setbacks during his first year as Speaker and outlined where he hoped to take his revolution in 1996. Excerpts...
...G.O.P. agenda--weakening environmental laws or workplace safety regulations, for instance, or making it harder to take manufacturers to court--corporate money probably would have found its way to their side even if the Republicans had done nothing more than leave a night-deposit box on the Capitol steps. But under Gingrich they have been much more aggressive. One of his chief enforcers is majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House. DeLay is famous around Washington these days for "the book" he keeps in his office. It lists how much each...
...most of your time going from one coalition meeting to another." These are coordinated for Gingrich by Representative John Boehner. His Thursday Group, a round table of representatives from the various coalitions, meets every week at 11 a.m. in a room within Gingrich's suite of offices in the Capitol. Unconstrained by rules of public disclosure, they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying efforts, most of it raised from large corporations...