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...does it keep growing in a period of intensive government cost cutting? For starters, it has good p.r. and an army of bureaucrats working to expand it. A corporate-welfare bureaucracy of an estimated 11,000 organizations and agencies has grown up, with access to city halls, statehouses, the Capitol and the White House. They conduct seminars, conferences and training sessions. They have their own trade associations. They publish their own journals and newsletters. They create attractive websites on the Internet. And they never call it "welfare." They call it "economic incentives" or "empowerment zones" or "enterprise zones...
...first focus when he arrives on Capitol Hill: "I'm going to learn how to work within the house establishment," he told The Crimson in an interview. "I wasn't elected to destroy the establishment. I'd like to try and change...
...bottom line is that there are now 27 states in which the press corps [at the state capitol] has been seriously down-sized," Fouhy said...
...five-member panel of retired or retiring Capitol Hill veterans said that the outcome will depend on which constituencies make their voices heard...
...Clinton's give-no-ground strategy worries his allies in Congress more than it does his opponents. Eager to get the impeachment process over with, Democrats on Capitol Hill have little appetite for adopting the President's defense that he was "legally accurate" when he insisted under oath that he'd never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. They would much rather quickly concede that Clinton was lying and then argue that the lies weren't serious enough to merit throwing him out of office. That approach puts them in synch with public opinion but at odds with the White...