Word: capitols
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...simply nonsensical that Medicare has far less ability to negotiate drug prices than the Veterans Health Administration or Medicaid. We are also disappointed by the amount of power the pharmaceutical industry, which vehemently opposed the repeal and spent thousands on the effort to shoot it down, still wields on Capitol Hill. To some legislators, special interest groups are apparently more important than the good of elderly Americans. Since Medicare recipients are such an enormous group of customers, we understand that the repeal might impact the pharmaceutical market in unforeseen ways, especially with respect to incentives for developing new or unique...
...Mass murder, in short, is not a random act. There are things that explain it. Psychosis, for one, can never be ruled out. Russell Weston, a 41-year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody...
...first Republican to tackle Gonzales was Arlen Specter, the committee's ranking minority member, who termed Gonzales' session on Capitol Hill a "reconfirmation hearing." Though Specter started with the charitable tone of voice he reserves for those who he views as foolish but forgivable, Gonzales quickly did two things you never do with the cantankerous senior Senator from Pennsylvania: he both interrupted and challenged him. When Specter was asking Gonzales about conflicts between his opening statement and comments he made at a press conference earlier this year, Specter said, as an aside, that he was sure that Gonzales had prepared...
...than hard-edged academic advice.The truth is that the responsibility implicitly associated with academic advising is enormous. There is no comp process that allows for slow learning through mistakes and success. The seemingly unimportant choices these freshmen make could eventually be as far reaching as determining a career on Capitol Hill or one distributing political flyers on Beacon Hill—choices that weigh heavily on the advice and support of their advisers.BIG BROTHER, BIG SISTERAccording to the creators of the Peer Advising program, it was hardly the intention to endow these fellows with so much responsibility...
...letter says that it is also aimed at fellow Republicans - and especially G.O.P. members of Congress - whom they hope to encourage to call for the Attorney General's ouster, a step they argue is crucial to ending damage to the Department of Justice, as well as G.O.P. standing on Capitol Hill...