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WASHINGTON: It's the quiet before the impeachment storm. But make no mistake: Capitol Hill is a hive of activity in advance of Thursday's House vote on a full, Watergate-style inquiry. Top Democrats are pushing hard for a limited Lewinsky probe, but their support is hemorrhaging fast: Reps. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) both estimate a hefty 60 Democratic defectors to the GOP proposal. That's not surprising, given the number of Dems in swing districts who might be fatally wounded at the polls next month if they appear to be soft on impeachment...
That reversal evoked smiles not only at the Pentagon but also on Capitol Hill, where Clinton needs any support he can scrounge, and where lawmakers in both parties welcome extra spending in their districts to keep redundant military bases open and weapons contractors hiring. The Joint Chiefs will testify before Congress this week, and despite the inconvenient dearth of serious foreign threats, they will enjoy a warm reception...
...bestow her forgiveness ostentatiously in a nationally televised interview. Instead she is making the case for her husband's survival in private. Two weeks ago, she served coffee and danish and reassurance to about two dozen adoring women lawmakers at the White House. She also lobbied Capitol Hill by phone to shore up Democratic support for the President, helping quiet the grousing of at least one of his more outspoken critics, Virginia Congressman James Moran. There is talk that she may even address the House Democratic Caucus...
...That will please the Clinton administration, which sees the ISS as a billion-dollar boondoggle designed to keep Russian scientists in employment and out of other nations' nuclear weapons programs. Capitol Hill, however, is more skeptical. "It's smoke and mirrors," said Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) of the House Science Committee. "What NASA has done is to propose a leveraged buyout of the Russian Space Agency." Wednesday's Science Committee meeting on the subject is likely to be ugly; Goldin would do well to offer free gifts and a money-back guarantee...
WASHINGTON: For one day, anyway, official talk about the female anatomy wasn't confined to Capitol Hill. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a New York City zoning ordinance that banned topless dancing at the Cozy Cabin, a bar in the NYC borough of Queens -- but not without a bare-knuckle fight from the bar's owner and a dancer identified in the case only as "Vanessa...