Word: capitols
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which raised duties on some 20,000 imported goods. Historians define this as one of the critical steps that led to the Great Depression - a tipping point when the world realized that partisan self-interest had trumped global leadership on Capitol Hill...
...credit markets seizing up, Washington went to the well once more, as a lame-duck President joined Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to ask Americans to trust them with a $700 billion Wall Street rescue package. But the well of trust had long run dry. Outraged calls overwhelmed Capitol Hill switchboards, and on Sept. 29 the bailout failed in the House, panicking the markets anew. Washington is still likely to find a fix for the credit crisis, but after a series of corruption scandals and a longer series of gaps between deeds and words, its own credibility crisis might take...
...Joined the Washington Post in 1984. Left in 1991 when editors told her she wasn't ready for Capitol Hill. Switched to the New York Times, which assigned her to the White House...
...Left the Times to become NBC's Capitol Hill reporter...
...other leading House Republicans have had no time to lick their wounds. With the Senate passing a newer version of the financial stabilization bill Wednesday night - bailout is all but a banned word on Capitol Hill now - the uncomfortable spotlight is once again focused on Boehner's ability to deliver enough Republicans. The sweeteners added to the basic plan - including an extension of popular energy and business tax cuts and an increase to $250,000 in the amount in individual bank accounts that the FDIC will insure - should help. But if Boehner is once again unable to deliver the necessary...