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...while this year it seemed that George W. Bush buttonholed everybody he met to get his or her view on stem-cell research. Emissaries from Capitol Hill, delegations of scientists, pro-lifers, bioethicists, patients' advocates, the Pope--if they had a take, they had his ear. "Almost everyone in the White House, well, he asked your opinion at one point," says presidential counselor Karen Hughes. "He also questioned what led you to that decision. He wanted to know the rationale...
Meanwhile, pressure was building in Congress. On July 25, Rove huddled with 43 moderate Congressmen of the Republican Mainstreet Partnership at the Capitol Hill Club. Minnesota Representative Jim Ramstad, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease and whose first cousin died from juvenile diabetes, stood up and made an impassioned plea for stem-cell research. In reply, Rove recounted how on a trip he took to Georgia a young couple came up to him and pleaded for stem-cell research to continue for another six months so it might save their ailing child. The President, Rove told the Congressmen, considered...
From my work place on the Hill, I could see the Capitol. When I went to other offices, to meetings, to seminars, I would look out the window and there it would be—the Capitol. Not the fake image they stick behind Darryl Hammond or whoever happens to be playing the president now on “Saturday Night Live,” but the actual Capitol dome. And when I looked at it, from home or work, I felt lighter, happier, inspired. I know it sounds hackneyed, but the more I lived in Washington, and the more...
...part of my job, I gave tours of the Capitol and was privileged enough to receive a private tour of the dome, gazing down from the top of the inner dome on the rotunda below, and even heading outside to look down on D.C. from the outer dome. Yet looking around in the building and from the building could never compare to the hypnotic draw of looking...
...beginning of the summer, Clinton seemed to have found her footing on Capitol Hill. She started fund-raising in earnest for other Democrats, and began inching into the national spotlight again. Just before the Senate adjourned for summer recess, Clinton, a member of the Commerce Committee, led a successful challenge of President Bush?s pick to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Defeating the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall was, in effect, Clinton?s first real bid for national press...