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...joint budget committee for the present House and Senate units, which often disagree. Most important, it would convert the budget outline Congress is supposed to produce in April to a joint resolution requiring the President's signature. That would foster serious early bargaining between the White House and Capitol Hill. "Any confrontation would occur up front," says Domenici, "not in the days just prior to the new fiscal year...
Ideas like these win applause from think-tank experts but have failed to arouse much enthusiasm on Capitol Hill. The real problem is not with the budgetmaking process but with those who are in charge of it. The Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law was billed as the magic bullet that would blow away both the deficit ogre and the obstacles to orderly action. Gramm-Rudman has proved to be a dud. Overhauling the machinery yet again would help only if its operators were able to muster the will to run it properly. But if they could manage that, no overhaul would...
...government should determine that these arguments are invalid? Simple: just change the order. That can be done "at the whim of the President," says Michael Glennon, professor of law at the University of California at Davis. Capitol Hill sources assert that President Bush could issue a rewritten order, or, more likely, an "exception" to the standing one, and legally keep it secret. The only way to prevent that would be to write a prohibition against assassinations into law. After congressional investigations in the 1970s turned up evidence of CIA-sponsored assassination plots, attempts were made to enact such...
Patrons at the Blue Mill Tavern in New York City's Greenwich Village last Monday were greeted by a rare sight: the TV set in the bar was tuned not to Monday Night Football but to a documentary on PBS. On Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Kennedy, a Yankee Democrat, and Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican, were riveted by the same show. Across the U.S., people debated the battlefield tactics of Robert E. Lee, marveled at the letter-writing eloquence of Civil War soldiers and traded stories of ancestors who fought in the nation's great holocaust...
After years of prodding from Capitol Hill and the national education community, the U.S. Department of Education this week announced the results of admissions policy reviews at both Harvard and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Both schools were alleged to have set quotas in their acceptance of Asian American students...