Word: capitols
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will lead a study group on “social entrepreneurship” while he writes a book on his City Year experiences. Martin, who was press secretary for then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s, will lead a study group titled “Capitol Hill 101: The Skills Needed to Succeed.” “I’m looking forward to taking in Harvard through the eyes of a Republican,” Martin said. Moose, a former ambassador to Benin and Senegal who was a top State Department official...
...When the Capitol police start politely clearing the hallways outside the Senate floor on a Tuesday afternoon it usually signals that Vice President Dick Cheney has decided to attend the Republicans' weekly policy lunch. But the gentility went out the window around noon Tuesday as the cops grabbed bystanders and pulled them out of the way as they rushed to empty the area not just for Cheney and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, but for a special guest: Lady Margaret Thatcher...
...planned to play the national security card on Capitol Hill this election season, but they are being trumped by one of their own: South Carolina's Lindsey Graham. As they had in the last two election cycles, Republicans intended to force a series of "bad votes" for the Democrats this September, designed to make them look weak on defense and national security. Pushing through hard-line bills that would authorize President Bush's programs of domestic surveillance and terrorism tribunals, the White House and Republican leaders thought, would force Democrats either to oppose popular anti-terrorism initiatives or play...
...weekend, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued a statement headlined: "House GOP September Agenda to Focus on National Security, Homeland Security & Border Security." In case that was too subtle, Boehner added: "Now is not the time for a weak and indecisive approach that has been offered by Capitol Hill Democrats, and that's why Republicans are working to keep America safe through policies based on strength and purpose, rather than confusion and defeat...
...battles he fought to bring his party around to the benefits of globalization, it seemed a repudiation for her to oppose the Bush Administration-- approved deal to turn over operations of some U.S. ports to a Dubai-owned company. Never mind that virtually every other Democrat and Republican on Capitol Hill was right where she was in demagoguing as a national-security threat a deal that would have very little impact, if any, on how the ports would be run. And it didn't help her credibility when the Financial Times revealed that the emirate--where Bill had been paid...