Word: capitols
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...citizenry; and Pakistani public opinion remains more hostile to the U.S. than to the Taliban. Karzai, meanwhile, has long been written off by Washington an incapable of providing the kind of governance essential to winning a counterinsurgency war. Still, in response to the growing legion of skeptics on Capitol Hill, the Administration might well ask: Does anyone have a better idea...
...opened the door for Sessions to move up, bent over backward on Tuesday to compliment the Alabaman, even though Specter was on the committee in 1986 and voted against Sessions at the time. "My vote against candidate Sessions for the federal court was a mistake," Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill, "because I have since found that Senator Sessions is egalitarian." Echoed Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason it won't come up is because he has been a member of the committee for a long period of time...
...alike smell blood in the water; the country's military barely pretends to follow his instructions; the Taliban controls large swaths of his country's territory; and militant groups want his head - literally. So, can Pakistan's President expect some TLC in Washington? From the White House, perhaps, but Capitol Hill has little love left for Zardari...
...Capitol Hill, however, legislators from both parties expressed reluctance to unconditionally bail out Zardari's government, expressing sharp criticism of his handling of the fight against extremism in his country and skepticism over the Obama Administration's claims that Islamabad if finally getting serious about that fight. At the Holbrooke hearing, Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman of New York said, "Pakistan's pants are on fire, but ... they don't recognize the risk [they...
Privately, some Democrats on Capitol Hill say they fear the negotiations currently underway are drifting. And some on the left are worried that Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus is being too solicitous of the Republicans...