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...pill" amendment that would have exempted gun-rights groups from the bill's limits on paid issues advertising. If the amendment passed, it could have killed the entire bill by forcing it into a House-Senate conference, where opponents could bottle it up forever. N.R.A. lobbyists swarmed through the Capitol, warning Democrats and Republicans alike that they would pay dearly if they voted against the amendment. But the reformers rallied again. Senator John McCain, his nose bandaged because of a recent skin-cancer surgery, camped out in an office on the House side of the Capitol--across the hall from...
...Impressed by the luge security, I wanted to see how intense it would be around the Governor of Utah. So I set up an appointment and arrived at the Capitol, where I learned you can get into the parking lot with nothing more than the statement, "I'm here to see the Governor." Luckily for me, this doesn't require memorizing his name. Also lucky for me is that Michael Leavitt's name is on his office door. There were no National Guardsmen in the building, no Secret Service, no bomb-sniffing dogs, none of the things that had made...
...After a while, Leavitt deduced that I was on to the lack of security at the Capitol, or perhaps he was just trying to get rid of me. Either way, he ended the conversation by trying to win me over: he offered me a pin. I loudly refused, not only because journalistic integrity has never come so cheap, but because those things always set off the magnetometers...
...post-Sept. 11 patriotic fervor has silenced skepticism on Capitol Hill. One of the few complaints heard last week was that the new budget buys too few warships. (It came mostly from lawmakers from shipbuilding districts.) "The Democrats are terrified to challenge the President on defense," says Lawrence Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon appointee. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, expressed only mild concern, noting that the budget "comes without a comprehensive strategy or a detailed guide to that spending...
...members want to throw even more money at the Pentagon. Last year the Pentagon abandoned a decade-old benchmark, the ability to fight two major wars at once. The decision made sense, since the Soviets won't be coming through Germany's Fulda Gap any time soon. But on Capitol Hill, New York Representative John McHugh, a Republican member of the Armed Services Committee, says the Pentagon should consider bulking up to wage three wars at once in order to face down the "triangle of terror," a reference to Bush's declaration that Iran, Iraq and North Korea...