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...supposed to have been Newt Gingrich's valedictory, the week in which the first Republican House in 40 years could count its accomplishments before returning home to face the voters. As he sat last Thursday afternoon on the sun-washed balcony of his Capitol suite, the Speaker ticked them off: the line-item veto, a sweeping telecommunications law, a crackdown on illegal immigration, an expansion of health insurance, welfare reform, even a savings of $500,000 by ending daily ice deliveries to congressional offices. Then, in Gingrich fashion, he reached back--quite a reach--for a historical analogy. "You could...
...Capitol Hill, correspondence with constituents often thousands of miles away is continuous and serious. Scores of letters, phone calls, faxes and e-mail messages land in each office each...
Millner may make it to the Capitol yet. He is expected to outspend Cleland by as much as $2 million, much of it his own money, and to dominate television in the final days of the campaign. Millner is also keeping up a tireless schedule of personal appearances--he has traveled more than 46,000 miles across the state since January. And his party affiliation may help: the Republican vote has been growing rapidly in Georgia, and no Southern Democrat has won an open Senate seat since 1988. Still, if the polls are to be believed, Cleland could...
...Pentagon has been hammered for its evasive handling of the growing problem. Last week's announcement, for example, came late in the evening in a single-page press release, adding fuel to cover-up charges from both vets and Capitol Hill. "Why this took five years to get released is a question I keep asking," said Republican Congressman Fred Upton of Michigan. "How many veterans could have been treated in the last five years if we knew all the facts we know...
Philip Corso, an elderly and retired U.S. Army colonel, is anything but retiring on the subject of trust and betrayal. He marched up to Capitol Hill last week to try anew to make Congress and the nation face the fact that American soldiers had been left behind at the end of the Korean War--to die, to be executed, to be used as guinea pigs in "Nazi-style" medical experiments. Such suggestions have often been raised but rarely credited. Corso had tried to give his account to the Senate in 1992, but got nowhere. Last week, backed by newly declassified...