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...Although time is running out, South Asian nations may yet get a boost if the U.S. textile industry persuades Washington to restrict clothing imports from China for a few more years. Representatives of several Asian governments are doing their own lobbying in the U.S. capitol, hoping to gain protection for at least three more years. Without special treatment, garment industries in countries such as Nepal are likely to become a free-trade casualty, says exporter Pokhrel: "Death is the only prediction we can make...
When Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical...
...nearly one hundred years ago when women were first granted the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Women have come a long way since and yet far too few women have made their way to Capitol Hill...
Rogers is one of the architects of the current movement alive on Capitol Hill to publicly out all gay politicos whose work is perceived to hinder the progress of gay rights legislation. This phenomenon is a complicated but, I think, ultimately sinister plot that hinges on shame and guilt. The former is in relation to mainstream society, and the latter is in regards to other members of the minority group. Both raise questions that lie at the heart of all of what we know as our “identities.” The constantly shifting balance of powers renders...
Every chance he gets, Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, 56, reminds voters in this Republican stronghold of his power in the nation's Capitol. The problem is, his opponent, former U.S. Representative John Thune, 43, keeps bringing it up as well. Whereas Daschle stresses his ability to get the most for his little state, Thune casts him as the Democrats' No. 1 obstructionist to the Bush agenda. Daschle, Thune says, has held up judicial nominees and "embolden[ed] the enemy" by criticizing the President on the eve of the Iraq war. The challenger's assaults have turned what should have...