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...says decorum is gone from Capitol Hill? After a week of Senate deliberations that might have been mistaken for a schoolyard rumble as they prepared to vote on their balanced-budget amendment, the members arranged themselves into something like a class picture. All were seated decorously at their antique mahogany desks. As the clerk called their names, each rose separately to announce his or her vote. Republican Hank Brown of Colorado even put his hand over his heart as he said, "Aye." You could almost forget that most of them still had slingshots in their back pockets...
...after his lesbian half-sister Candace visited Capitol Hill to lobby for gay rights, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said workers who are fired because they are homosexual should have no right to sue in federal court. During his daily press conference, the Speaker applied a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" principle to the issue, saying that while employers shouldn't ask, employees should have no recourse. The head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political group represented by Candace Gingrich, speculated that the Speaker is "under pressure from extremists" to make such comments...
...Wednesday afternoon, if current plans hold, the little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...
...prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed to vote from their districts. Newt Gingrich, the first self-proclaimed futurist to become the Speaker of the House, is in the process of putting Capitol Hill online, allowing computer users to gain access to pending legislation through a new information system named ``Thomas'' after -- who else? -- Thomas Jefferson...
...many ways, the hyperkinetic Kasich--whose name, he points out, rhymes with basic--is the perfect general for this most crucial campaign of the Gingrich Revolution. At 42, the youngest committee chairman on Capitol Hill embodies both the brashness and the energy of the new generation of conservatives. Kasich may be the only Congressman ever evicted from the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. (A misunderstanding, he says of the 1991 dustup at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium: he had been invited onstage by his friend, country star Dwight Yoakam, the Dead's warm-up act.) He has also been known...