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From her years on Capitol Hill, Burke recalls with particular satisfaction her efforts to secure hospice service for Medicare patients and to guarantee for the elderly an all-inclusive range of benefits outside of nursing homes...
Overall, the adjustment from the pressure-filled environment of Capitol Hill to Harvard's academic climate has proved smooth for Burke...
According to Richard Posner and Katherine Silbaugh's "A Guide to Americas Sex Laws" (University of Chicago Press, 1996)--housed on the P3 level of Pusey Library, where all the really good books are--fellatio is illegal in the nation's capitol. Very illegal. Silbaugh and Posner read D.C. Code Annual 22-3502 (enacted 1948) as designating it a felony to "take the sexual organ of another person in ones mouth...or to place ones sexual organ in the mouth...of another...
...Starr is not short of support on Capitol Hill, however, where there are ominous rumblings of the "I" word. Roll Call, the Washington insider paper, says that Newt Gingrich and other GOP grandees have discussed dipping into a $4.4 million fund to help bankroll impeachment proceedings. An aide to Gingrich confirmed that her boss had discussed bolstering the Judiciary Committee staff should Starr turn the matter over to them. None of Clinton's enemies are using the "I" word in public -- it's merely being passed off as preparation. "In Washington," said Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.), "you have...
Last week the Administration began its campaign on Capitol Hill to replenish the coffers of the International Monetary Fund, which were depleted by its $120 billion bailout of Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin went to Congress to request an $18 billion boost for the IMF. Getting it will not be easy, since last year Congress rejected a much smaller request...