Word: capitols
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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WASHINGTON House Republicans stage a walkout on Capitol Hill...
...Clinton were being told by a Hollywood filmmaker instead of by the muse of history, the opening scene would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic Texas presidential campaign - including...
...Obama wave came to the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday for a rally on the same spot near the Texas Capitol where George W. Bush followers huddled in a cold rain almost eight years ago for the longest election night on record. Some of Obama's most popular lines of the night bashed President Bush as the crowd - estimated variously at between 15,000 to 30,000 - listened rapturously for almost an hour. A jumbo screen broadcast his image down Congress Avenue, not far from the city's nightclub district, and one homemade sign read: "The Beginning Is Near...
...Meanwhile, Texans for Obama is organizing a debate watching party at one of the city's legendary political watering holes. Over 400 self-styled Obamaniacs have signed up so far to gather at Scholz Garten, an old-style German beer garden near the capitol. It is a mythic place for Texas liberal Democrats - Davis said his activist parents hung out there 30 years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat before senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge a State Department budget increase of 8.5% and the hiring of 1,100 new staff. Unusually, some lawmakers wished she'd have asked for even more. Senator Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat, told Rice that her request was "small compared to the overall needs." and that U.S. diplomacy was still getting "shortchanged...