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...Hire a velvet hammer. G.O.P. officials said the return of White House counsel Fred Fielding to the job he held in the Reagan Administration signaled to Capitol Hill that the Administration would not simply stonewall in the face of subpoenas and investigations. Fielding will take a tough stance in some negotiations and be flexible in others. "He's highly partisan but highly regarded," an official said...
...That's why today she plans to be in Washington for "College Affordability Day," Pae said. She'll lead a group of students and higher-education lobbyists at a meeting on Capitol Hill with a handful of newly empowered congressional Democrats. "We're hoping for some changes...
...Swarthmore College, has drafted a bill requiring that all e-voting machines come equipped with a device that produces a printed receipt showing a voter his or her choices before disappearing into storage, to be retrieved in the event of a recount. That bill is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks, Holt's office says, to the emergence of "concrete proof" of e-voting's shortcomings. Exhibit A is the so-called Princeton Report, published in September...
...Senate side of the Capitol building, the ladies in the basement cafeteria had posted up a color printout with pictures of the new Senators so everyone would recognize them if they stopped in for coffee. Upstairs in the halls off the Senate floor, the eager new members - there are nine of them in the Senate, all Democrats - hugged each other, their senior colleagues, family, staff and the occasional bemused passerby...
...Then there were the humiliations some had to endure. The press people for the former House majority whip, and now minority whip, Roy Blunt, used to occupy comfy, spacious digs on one of the Capitol's high floors. This week they found themselves unpacking boxes in a windowless basement room with half a dozen carrels crammed into it and low, buzzing fluorescent light setting an appropriately somber tone for their downfall. Denny Hastert, the hulking former Speaker of the House, shuffled jovially through the halls, no longer second in line for the presidency, with a sharply diminished security staff...