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...Mitchell are among those whom Kerry speaks with regularly, and his advisers believe all would be on the short list for Kerry's National Security Adviser or Secretary of State. Advisers also say Kerry's commitment to intelligence reform would require picking a Republican Secretary of Defense to win Capitol Hill's support in the inevitable battle with the Pentagon, which controls 90% of the spy budget. They have floated John McCain's name as a contender. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...
...Act’s mandatory reauthorization comes before Congress, it’s the same song and dance. Accountability for failing teachers? No. Incentives for successful educators? Think again. Charter schools? Hardly. Vouchers of any kind? In your dreams. Actually, the only policy the NEA has ever favored on Capitol Hill is a rather straightforward one: Giving more money to the nation’s schools with few or no strings attached—the aforementioned policy that Kerry has recently usurped...
Hastert's silence was better than the explicitly cool reception that Bush's announcement got from other leading Republicans on Capitol Hill. Senate majority leader Bill Frist was highly skeptical of its chances for passage. So was House majority leader Tom DeLay. David Dreier, the powerful chairman of the House Rules Committee, flatly opposes amending the Constitution, arguing that the question of gay marriage instead "should go through the courts...
That's a delicate way of describing the upheaval that took place when Cahill arrived the following Monday morning at the shabby Capitol Hill town house that serves as campaign headquarters. Three months later, Kerry finds himself with 18 primaries and caucus wins under his belt and could be on the verge of clinching the nomination. Campaigns are won by candidates, of course, but someone had to come up with and stick to a plan that would have Kerry standing in just the right spot if lightning struck. That was Cahill's job, and the against-the-odds strategy that...