Word: capitols
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...whole, and the higher education budget in particular, have been slashed and burned over the last 10 years. And in the tight budgetary climate of Washington, there is not much hope for an upswing in funding. But if any person could change that, if any person could convince Capitol Hill to do what's right instead of what's cheap, it would be Harvard's president...
Although he estimates that the cost of SETI to the US citizen is only about "five cents per taxpayer per year," the program is still "met with opposition and ridicule by scientific ignoramuses" on Capitol Hill...
...true that not all old blood is bad blood. Many and perhaps most Congressmen are qualified and competent. But together, as an institution, they are paralyzed. Expeditious action on Capitol Hill is reserved for nonsensical commemorative resolutions and reciprocal pork-barrel bills. Important issues are ducked, and contrivances like automatic spending cuts substitute for judgment...
...rules of Congress are arcane, often unwritten, and demand a lifetime of male bonding to understand. It's bad form to call one's deepest philosophical enemy anything but "my distinguished colleague," or to continue a political argument after hours. When cries went up for a list of Capitol Hill check bouncers, House Speaker Tom Foley protected Democrats and Republicans alike, as does the Ethics Committee. So ingrained is the clubbiness that partisanship often seems like a Hulk Hogan spectacle, faked for the C-SPAN audience...
...though I'd seen enough character assasination on Capitol Hill," said Tabak. "I would at least hope if somebody is out to destroy the integrity of another council member that they would do it personally and not have other people ask the questions...