Word: capitols
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just so happens that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be launching her career as Democratic House leader the same week that the District hosted memorial service for Gerald Ford. That small twist of fate points up one of the capitol's cardinal rules: in Washington, you never run out of chances to make a first impression...
...Congressional Democrats who have spent 12 long years in the minority, New Year's Eve was merely a prelude to the real celebration that will take place this Thursday, when they will officially take over the reins of power on Capitol Hill. But the party would be wise not to party too hard. Its ambitious plans for changing how Washington operates face daunting obstacles - the biggest being the Iraq war - and it may not be long before it starts feeling the hangover...
...Still, Democratic and Republican lawmakers know each party pays a price in two years if legislative gridlock continues. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plan to begin the new session with a closed meeting of all Republicans and Democrats in the Capitol to discuss ways they can get along. "Both understand the need to change the way D.C. operates," says Manley...
...Still, a lot may be missing. For the past two years, a team of manuscript experts from the National Coalition for History, an advocacy group for history organizations on Capitol Hill, has been screening the printed catalogues and websites of about 60 top dealers around the country. The screeners found more than 370 suspicious documents among the some 90,000 they saw for sale and forwarded reports on them to the National Archives...
...Some critics in Congress and the Administration say that such a plan, meant to secretly influence a foreign government, should be legally deemed a "covert action," which by law would then require that the White House inform the intelligence committees on Capitol Hill. Some in Congress would undoubtedly raise objections to this secret use of publicly appropriated funds to promote democracy...