Word: capitols
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...sixth-grader's second lobbying trip to Washington this year. With the dome of the Capitol building rising above her, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hillary Clinton and John Kerry nearby, Walters stood on the West Lawn and explained why she opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: "The people who want to drill in the Refuge talk about all these fancy tools and technology they can use to get a little oil ten years from now," she said, in a louder, stronger voice than when she delivered the same speech to congressmen in the spring. (Before she spoke...
Harriet Miers can ill afford to lose any more support. But sources at the Capitol tell TIME that the Supreme Court nominee has aggravated Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania, who will oversee a confirmation hearing set to begin Nov. 7. With conservative calls for Miers to withdraw escalating by the day, Specter had started to feel sorry for her and was trying to help. But the Senator, says an official who has talked to him, is now "very, very, very unhappy...
...Julius B. Richmond award is named in honor of a professor emeritus at Harvard and former U.S. Surgeon General who was the first national director of the Head Start program. Previous recipients of the award include Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., for his health advocacy on Capitol Hill, and “Today Show” host Katie Couric for her work raising colon cancer awareness.—Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu...
...their opposition to her this week. But in the Senate, which will ultimately decide the nomination's fate, Miers will have a couple of opportunities to build support for herself. After a series of meetings two weeks ago that left many GOP senators underwhelmed, Miers will be back on Capitol Hill this week. The nominee is also expected to return a 12-page questionnaire this week that the Senate gave her last week, which included questions on her views on "judicial activism," cases she's worked on constitutional issues and whether she was asked or made promises to people...
...comment. But the case is a concern on Capitol Hill. "The timeline," says a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee chair Peter Hoekstra, "will be reviewed." --By Brian Bennett and Timothy J. Burger