Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American soldiers have arrived in Bosnia even though the debate on Capitol Hill has barely begun. An advance squad of 10 soldiers from the Army's 1st Armored Division in Germany toured the Tuzla area on foot and in United Nations vehicles to scout for supply and communications bases in Tuzla in preparation for the arrival of a larger advance contingent of about 700 U.S. troops...
...weeks ago, the Republicans achieved their goal. Direct student lending has been capped at only 10 percent of total loan volume. If there was any justice in this country, Goodling, Kassebaum and their ilk would be publicly whipped on the Capitol steps. But that won't happen. We will just pay higher loan fees and watch bankers laugh as they...
Although House Majority Leader Dick Armey has said that getting public support for the Bosnia mission would be "like pulling teeth through the back of your head," opposition within the Beltway may be softening. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, even Strom Thurmond, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hedged his criticism: "I support the North Atlantic alliance and believe that the United States should remain engaged in and show leadership in NATO." Elsewhere, the American Jewish Congress today joined an increasing number of voices supporting the U.S. troop deployment. "It looks increasingly likely that Clinton will get congressional...
...fence around the country--but they back higher military spending. "They figure we ought to basically tell other countries what to do because we're the strongest, then come home," says a Republican congressional staff member only half in jest. European parliamentarians and ministers who go to Capitol Hill for long-scheduled meetings with groups of congressmen are finding that only one or two--sometimes none--show up. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has set up a foreign-policy breakfast series to educate his charges about the world, but attendance has been sporadic...
Even as the debate on Capitol Hill begins, Defense correspondent Mark Thompson reports, the Pentagon already plans to send as many as 2,000 American soldiers to Bosnia this week: "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be." The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force...