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...mail; aspiring young pols get "candidate development" training. In its 25 years, according to Blackwell, the institute has trained some 40,000 conservatives--the movement's field army--including nearly 200 who went on to become state legislators and more than 300 who wound up as staff members on Capitol Hill...
...This Friday controversial pundit Ann Coulter, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and others will address the leaders of NeW and their peers at the Conservative Leadership Seminar, a Capitol Hill conference where aspiring right-wingers learn from the pros. The seminar is sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, an organization that mentors young conservative women. Though conservatives rising up on campus isn't exactly a new phenomenon, until now there hasn't been a group on campus that has specifically taken on modern feminism the way national groups like the Independent Women's Forum and the Eagle Forum...
...this will not be a troop-withdrawal meeting--but the White House still faces pressure to show some kind of progress toward reducing U.S. involvement in Iraq. In Congress, both parties are scrambling to find ways to convince voters that they can bring troops home soon. Though Republicans on Capitol Hill danced giddily on al-Zarqawi's crater, they complain privately that what they consider Bush's stubbornness--his conviction that to withdraw would be to admit error--could cost them control of the House, if not the Senate. "If the war goes well, Republicans do better," says Connecticut G.O.P...
...recent prominence and his vocal opposition to Bush's Iraq policy, his ascension would put a more decidedly antiwar stamp on the House Democratic leadership. "The more he gets out there, the more he realizes that he truly has taken on a leadership role," says a Murtha ally on Capitol Hill. "If it weren't for him opening the door and showing the leadership, nobody would...
Though Murtha had been quietly sounding out colleagues about a possible leadership race for some time, nearly everyone on Capitol Hill was perplexed as to why he would publicly announce a bid for a post that may not even exist for the Democrats after November. Said a Democratic aide, with a sigh: "Let's just focus on winning some seats...