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...most famous whistle-blower wants to go to Capitol Hill. Coleen Rowley, who retired last December three years after exposing the agency's investigative lapses before 9/11, tells TIME she's laying out a campaign strategy for a run at Minnesota's Second Congressional District seat. She'll meet this week with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington to discuss how much money it can contribute to the $2 million war chest she expects she'll need in an effort to unseat Republican John Kline. Though Rowley, 50, would start as a distinct underdog in the heavily Republican district...
Rowley, who first toyed with the idea of running in 2004, objects to Kline's support of the war in Iraq and his "lockstep" voting with President Bush and she vows to bring "personal responsibility and authenticity" to Capitol Hill. But she's still wary of political consultants who have advised her to apply makeup, upgrade her wardrobe and update her hairstyle. "It's just my gut instinct that it's all wrong for me," she says. "It's not who I am." Rowley, who since retirement has been spending time with her husband Ross and training for five triathlons...
...minority. They have little patience for arcane traditions that can allow the objections of even a single Senator to bring the place to a halt. "The institution is important, but the future of the country is what we're here for," said South Carolina freshman Jim DeMint at a Capitol Hill news conference to express support for Bush's judicial nominees. Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson recalled that when he was elected to the Senate last year, his House colleagues joked that he would have to get a lobotomy to fit in. "Every Senator has immense power...
...surprisingly, that is a brush that Parsons prefers not to be tarred with as he sets out to conquer the U.S. market. He recently paid courtesy calls to critics in Washington. In a meeting on Capitol Hill, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California opened the discussion, Parsons recalls, by declaring, "You're the channel that hates freedom and loves terrorism." Another conservative whom Parsons visited was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. According to Parsons, she expressed concern that his channel would pander to anti-American sentiments. "She was skeptical in the beginning...
...Numbers 8 Number of minutes the U.S.'s terror-alert level was raised to red last Wednesday, when an errant plane entered restricted airspace in Washington, D.C. 35,200 Number of people evacuated from the White House, Capitol and adjacent office buildings before the all-clear was sounded...