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Anyone who works in a highly visible enterprise toils in the shadow of legends: a ballplayer in Yankee Stadium knows he is standing where Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio once played. A newly inaugurated President stands on the Capitol rostrum knowing his words will be measured against those of Lincoln, F.D.R., J.F.K...
...University publicly opposed a number of bills on Capitol Hill last year, including proposed cuts to research funding and student financial...
Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill find themselves outflanked by the Democrats on popular issues like raising the minimum wage. So fractious and demoralized last year, the Democrats perform now like a synchronized swim team, setting the legislative agenda despite their minority status. Minimum-wage talking points are lofted among them like balloons. The budget passed last week provided billions of dollars for programs that Republicans had sworn to kill. In April, when Dole shelved the immigration bill after Democrats tried to attach riders on both the minimum wage and Social Security, he reminded the opposition sourly, "We have the majority...
...Dole's game plan sounded too good to be true, and it was. After he clinched the Republican nomination in March, Dole was supposed to return to his promontory on Capitol Hill where, as a modern-day, legislative Zeus, he would hurl bill after bill down Pennsylvania Avenue at a cowering Bill Clinton, who would either have to sign on to the Republican agenda or become a veto-happy obstructionist. By convention time, voters would know who was boss...
Sitting beside Hillary Clinton at a meeting on Capitol Hill two summers ago, Jennifer Bush cut a heartbreaking figure. The seven-year-old Coral Springs, Florida, girl with big eyes and a perky red bow atop her little Dutch-boy coif seemed a perfect poster child for the Administration's health-care-reform plan. Chronically ill almost from birth, Jennifer had already endured nearly 200 hospitalizations and 40 operations, and her $2 million-plus medical bill had exhausted the family's health-insurance benefits. Not surprisingly, Jennifer became a media darling, appearing on the Today show and on the front...