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...administration continues its seventh year and the Iraq war its fourth, the country has lost faith in its government. Increasingly, Americans feel that real power rests not with the citizens but with the rich and well-connected. We live in an age when Jack Abramoff can buy influence on Capitol Hill and the president can lie to Congress, the country, and the world. Americans are not just looking for new leaders; they are looking for an entirely new type of leadership...
...Obama has been committed to this transformation since long before he arrived on Capitol Hill. Pundits who call Obama inexperienced don’t count the time he spent as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, steering its 80 editors through contentious debates and moving them beyond petty power struggles. Nor do they take note of the time he spent as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago, empowering people who had no means of ensuring a better future. They don’t count the eight years he spent in the Illinois State Senate...
...their money is being spent, and demanded that senators no longer be able to request legislative earmarks anonymously. He worked with Senator Russ Feingold to implement common-sense ethics reforms, preventing members of Congress from accepting gifts from lobbyists and restricting the revolving door between lobbying firms and Capitol Hill. And that commitment has extended to the campaign trail, where he does not accept any campaign contributions from lobbyists or interest groups...
...When the Capitol Visitors Center finally opens, Congress will have an underground amusement park ready for its 4 million annual visitors. The 580,000 sq. ft. facility, located under the east lawn of Capitol Hill, will feature two "orientation" movie theaters, two gift shops, a museum, an auditorium, 26 public restrooms and the largest cafeteria in Washington. Lawmakers will use the facility to hold press conferences, luncheons, and even to vote when the House or Senate needs renovating. The floors will be made of Tennessee marble, the walls of Pennsylvania sandstone and several doors of pure bronze. The plaza above...
Rumsfeld's response was equally clueless. Just hours before the CBS show, says Republican Senator John McCain, Rumsfeld trooped up to S-407, the secure Intelligence Committee room in the Capitol, "and briefed us on how they're armoring the humvees. He never mentioned a word about the story that was to run that evening." Democrats and Republicans alike were furious that the Defense Secretary had kept them in the dark about the looming scandal. "If the answer is, 'He didn't know much and that's why he didn't tell us,'" said Representative John Spratt, a senior Democrat...