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...midterm elections could depend on half a dozen endangered G.O.P. seats in California. That's why House majority whip Tom DeLay told Bush two weeks ago that he shouldn't count on Republicans to beat back price caps. There may be collateral damage at the other end of the Capitol as well. Sources say Senate minority leader Trent Lott has warned Bush aides that California's problems could infect 10 Western states, endangering Colorado's Wayne Allard, Idaho's Larry Craig and Oregon's Gordon Smith. And while Bush may be writing off California's votes, plenty of Democrats covet...
Fair enough. But the White House is taking pains to get its story straight. At a meeting in economic adviser Larry Lindsey's office, aides were told to use the poll-approved "price caps" in place of the harsher "price controls." Republicans on Capitol Hill are thumbing through their thesauruses for other ways to describe the abrupt change of course. To some, the idea of telling their allies in the energy industry to give back their "unearned enrichment" seems more palatable than slapping them for "price gouging." And for those who find "caps" too strong to take, there's always...
...over a six-month period starting last fall, it was almost consumed from within. Chartered in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln, Gallaudet is host to only 2,000 students each year. But to America's estimated 2 million deaf people, the university's symbolic heft outstrips that of the U.S. Capitol, five minutes south by car. The deaf Harvard, Wharton and Brookings rolled into one, it has produced generations of leaders, activists and entrepreneurs. Whether in classrooms where teachers lecture in sign language, on playing fields where athletes key into the vibrations of huge drums rather than audible signals...
...office in Washington and a yearly budget of $250,000. Its Congressional Gala last month drew 200 people for an address by Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette. Even conservatives are noticing the change. Before the gala, the Culture and Family Institute warned that GenderPAC was promoting "Gender Confusion Day on Capitol Hill." Wilchins just smiled. "Actually," she said, "that could be our motto...
...next few months, the most important audience for Rumsfeld's diplomatic charm may be a fractious, self-important, Democrat-controlled body on Capitol Hill. When that exercise starts, the headlines will be about NATO enlargement and Senate worries about allied reaction to missile defense. But remember: Asia's where you'll find the real meat in the defense review...