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...Armey sweetly puts it, "a serious guy who understands what needs to be done and is going to do his level best to do it. He is a man who strikes me as not having a lot of guile, and in a Democrat that's refreshing." Across Capitol Hill the reviews by other Republicans are just as glowing. "It's obvious he tries very hard to understand our side," says Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman...
...over a department and don't know that they can't do much without OMB's approval," Darman once observed. "But they learn--some more painfully than others." Leon Panetta, Clinton's first budget director, wielded similar clout by virtue of his mastery of fiscal arcana, his understanding of Capitol Hill and his rapport with Clinton. When Panetta was elevated to chief of staff, however, his replacement, Alice Rivlin, lacked the political acumen to translate her economic credentials into real sway. She was not even invited to the negotiations with G.O.P. congressional leaders during last winter's government shutdown...
...income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager of parties given by prominent Capitol hostesses...
...those lines neat and tidy. The unusual $300,000 fine levied against the Speaker by the subcommittee that spent two years investigating him may be intended to restore some sense of propriety. But the bitterness and embarrassment of the Gingrich mess will linger in the marbled corridors of the Capitol for some time to come...
...Capitol Hill staffers say that compromises between the Democratic and Republican plans will likely be made in these committees, though the lack of discretionary funding favors new aid programs that rely on tax breaks as opposed to appropriations...