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...Capitol Hill, 53 Senators from both parties signed a letter urging Reagan to cancel the Bitburg visit. The letter noted that SS troops had committed atrocities against American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as against millions of Jews, and suggested dryly that "a more appropriate gesture of reconciliation be found." In the House, New York Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz charged, "This is the most monumental error of judgment by the President since he assumed office." Asked another New York Democrat, Congressman Ted Weiss, "Mr. President, where is your sense of history? Where is your sense...
Senators Jon Corzine, D-N.J. and Sam Brownback, R-Kansas joined GIF members at a Capitol Hill press conference kicking off the campaign yesterday...
...convening a special session during the Easter recess to pass a bill crafted just for one family, giving Schiavo's parents a final avenue of appeal. There was President Bush, for the first time cutting short a rest at his ranch to sign a bill. Top Republican staffers on Capitol Hill told TIME that it took some lobbying by congressional Republican leaders, who Bush needs for his controversial Social Security reform and budget cuts, for the President to return on short notice in such a visible role. There were members of Congress, including some physicians like Senate majority leader Frist...
It’s 1950 all over again on Capitol Hill, and this time, the “communists” have infiltrated an even more sacred American institution than Congress—baseball, our national pastime...
Kerry is also embracing the Senate with new fervor. Derided as an absentee Senator by Bush and other critics in 2004, Kerry seems almost everywhere on Capitol Hill these days, introducing bills to expand health care to all children, enlarge the military by 40,000 troops and rewrite election laws to allow any citizen to register to vote on Election Day. "I'm in a position to be more effective on these issues," he says. But some of his powerful colleagues disagree. In a meeting with labor leaders, Kerry questioned whether Democrats had a coherent message opposing Bush's Social...