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...Congress gave you a 10-year term and expects a response from you," according to a reliable account. "The people are entitled to an explanation." Specter then called committee chairman Patrick Leahy at his farm in Vermont, and the two men agreed to summon Mueller--and the memo--to Capitol Hill this week and, if he refuses, hit him with a Senate subpoena. If the White House tries to fight the move, says a G.O.P. source, "as many as 20 Republican senators" would vote to enforce the subpoena...
...Bush administration may have decided that it's time to manage expectations, to steel the public to absorb more blows in the way that the Israelis have been steeled by years of terror attacks. It may also be hoping to head off a self-destructive Capitol Hill post-mortem on Sept. 11 by warning the nation and its legislators that the danger has not passed, and urging them to focus on new threats rather than past mistakes...
...been in trouble for years, though that didn't keep the Army from fighting for it right up to the end. Rumsfeld had been thinking of killing it for months, but when he learned that Army officers had gone behind his back to try to save the program on Capitol Hill, he decided to make an example out of White...
When the Army decided to fight to the death over the ironclad Crusader, Rumsfeld saw his chance. The Army played into his hands when its deputy congressional liaison, Kenneth A. Steadman, faxed talking points to the Crusader's friends on Capitol Hill, saying that elimination of the long-range artillery gun would endanger G.I.s. Not long after that, Rumsfeld's aides put out the word that the gun was dead and that White was finished. And then, in a truly inspired piece of bureaucratic jujitsu, Rumsfeld sent his Post-it note to White--and held a press conference in which...
...conservatives on Capitol Hill are becoming frustrated by President George W. Bush's reluctance to follow in Dad's footsteps. After nearly 16 months in office, Bush has not exercised a single veto. He has occasionally threatened one (on a post-Sept. 11 spending bill, for example) and got changes as a result. But more often he has, in the view of conservatives, caved in too early. On campaign-finance reform, he made it clear from the outset that he would probably sign whatever bill was sent...