Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They used to be small businessmen, griping in obscurity about government red tape. But now they're big-time Congressmen whose real-life horror stories are making a big impression on Capitol Hill. House majority whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory...
Many people in business have valid stories of the burdens of regulations gone awry. But this year the Republican majority has filled the Capitol with stories of absurd excesses, many of them apocryphal. According to one bogus story, the Federal Government requires buckets to leak so children won't drown in them. Another says sand has been ruled a toxic substance. Nevertheless, myth and personal anecdote are powerful weapons...
...what exactly did Packwood in. His transgressions have not yet proved to be criminal and hardly seem worthy of harsher condemnation than those of others who have stumbled into sex or corruption charges and yet held their seat. Does Packwood's fall reflect a new moral climate in the Capitol, one that mirrors the family values championed by the religious right? Or was Packwood, who turned 63 this week, the fall guy for a bunch of Senators who stood accused of not "getting it" in the wake of the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings? Certainly, this time around, women...
...that 40% to 60% of all prescriptions in the U.S. are written for drugs being used for something other than their approved purpose. Now drug companies have started campaigning for the right to promote their products' unofficial benefits, and their lobbying effort is likely to be well received on Capitol Hill...
...lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the Capitol and the flag in the background, hanging in the foyer of our apartment for as long as I can remember. My mother remained a die-hard Democrat. But Pop, by 1952, was supporting Dwight Eisenhower...