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...mail and arrange a follow-up lunch, for instance, to develop a more substantive relationship. You have to wade into the shallow end before you can get to the depth. The speakers like to emphasis that this is the way of life in the hectic, always moving Capitol. People network, even if they groan at the mention of that ugly word...
...look at it. It refers to the tedious process of linking uncooperative computers together. Worse, it describes the superficial routine of introducing yourself to others long enough to ask for their business cards. Shallow and a bit awkward? Surebut wildly popular nonetheless. As Ive quickly learned, networking is Capitol Hills Paris Hilton...
...most measures, North Carolina Congressman James Broyhill is a true-blue Republican conservative. After 23 years on Capitol Hill, Broyhill, 58, has an 88% approval rating from the American Conservative Union, and the Congressional Quarterly reports that he took the conservative side in more than 85% of House votes in the past decade. But as he campaigns for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in a hotly contested primary next week, Broyhill is finding that his grades as a conservative simply may not be good enough...
...Executive Department," he contended. During two hours of argument, twice the normally allotted time, lawyers for the House, the Senate and the Comptroller came to the law's defense. Steven Ross, representing the bipartisan leadership of the House, rejected the claim that the Comptroller was answerable to Capitol Hill, arguing that Congress had assigned him a role in the Gramm-Rudman scheme precisely to ensure that the budget-cutting calculations would be "walled off" from political considerations...
Four opponents of aid to the contras, three of them Viet Nam veterans, made a last-ditch effort to scuttle the legislation by holding a hunger strike on the steps of the Capitol. Two of the strikers at week's end were on their 41st day of a water-only diet. The protesters are backed by polls showing that the public opposes aid to the contras...