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...what the U.S. spends in Iraq each year. Unlike the Persian Gulf, though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size of the request that the White House dispatched Budget Director Joshua Bolten to Capitol Hill on Sept. 7, where he made an unusual, late-evening appeal to nearly 200 skeptical Representatives...
...Capitol Hill, both parties are trying their best to harness the massive Katrina rebuilding effort to propel their own ideological agendas. Democrats view this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to try to reduce poverty and racial inequality, touting more investment in public school construction and housing vouchers. At the same time, they are showing a renewed spirit in fighting the President's proposed Medicaid cuts and a slew of G.O.P. tax reductions that were on the verge of passage. But conservatives could see at least some of their handiwork in the Administration's initial proposals for job-training...
...also be thinking in terms of payback. Remember just a few months ago, when China's state-run oil company, CNOOC, bid to buy California-based Unocal? Capitol Hill went crazy with talk that China was muscling in on America's strategic interests. China's leaders were baffled by all the politicking: CNOOC made a pretty good offer, they thought; Chevron wound up bidding less but still winning the deal. So Mr. Hu is in no mood to hear Mr. Bush talk about how China should use its leverage against Iran...
John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 will face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill today, marking the start of the first confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court justice in 11 years. If confirmed by the full Senate, Roberts will become both the 17th Chief Justice of the United States as well as the first graduate of Harvard College or Harvard Law School (HLS) to serve as chief justice...
...something," he said, "I think it's dangerous to extrapolate it to all over the place." Demonstrating the kind of tenacious dedication to a line of argument that made him a successful Mob prosecutor, Chertoff reprised the same theme last week in a briefing with House members on Capitol Hill, insisting that the federal response had been far better than advertised. In essence, he was telling politicians to believe the Administration rather than their own eyes. Some Democrats walked out of the briefing in disgust. "He's a great lawyer, very smart and extremely decent," the top aide...