Word: capitols
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Something strange is happening on Capitol Hill this week. Faced with a choice between attacking an allegedly corrupt Democratic Congressman or criticizing George W. Bush for expanding presidential power, Republican lawmakers chose the latter...
...there is another more likely reason for the outcry on Capitol Hill. Rather than an isolated incident, Republican leaders view the FBI raid as another example of the Bush Administration's expansion of executive branch power, and they appear to have lost patience. Says Bob Stevenson, spokesman for Majority Leader Bill Frist, "There's a real separation of powers issue here." And one Senate leadership aide says the feeling is Bush has gone too far this time...
...Still, among the people who could change the law - lawmakers on Capitol Hill - there remains a rare bipartisan consensus behind it. The House of Representatives last week opened a series of hearings to look into No Child Left Behind. At the start of the hearing, House Education Committee Chairman Howard McKeon, a Republican from California, said "the impact of No Child Left Behind has been dramatic, and a positive step forward for students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers." The committee's top Democrat, George Miller, was scarcely less enthusiastic: "No Child Left Behind is making a difference," he said...
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...speaks in lucid, well-constructed sentences," observes former Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee until 2003. "And then he pauses as if to give the listener a chance to assimilate what he has just said." It is clear when Hayden goes to Capitol Hill that he has studied his audience carefully. "He's a great PowerPoint briefer, and he speaks at their level," says a congressional intelligence staffer who has seen the general in action with lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously...