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...Japan and Germany contribute? America's two richest allies have been slow to ante up. Both claim their postwar constitutions make it impossible for them to send military units outside their own regions. Even if that is true, their prolonged fumbling in reaching for wallets has produced anger on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona accused Bonn / of "contemptible tokenism," while Democratic Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky said Tokyo was behaving predictably: "If there's no profit in it for them, forget...
...former male prostitute and companion of Congressman Barney Frank has quietly returned to Capitol Hill: he now works as a bike courier delivering mail around Washington but has yet to visit the office of his former roommate. Apparently his book-writing plans are on hold...
...military relationship with Saudi Arabia has indeed gone smoothly so far, but its vagueness is causing some uneasiness on Capitol Hill. "There are a number of loose ends to be tied up," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Senator Sam Nunn says flatly, "We cannot give the Saudis a veto on operations...
...President's call for restraint came amid a fast-rising tide of public wrath toward the oil industry. Michigan Governor James Blanchard accused oil companies of war profiteering, a politically loaded charge rarely leveled since World War II. On Capitol Hill last week, congressional committees hastily convened hearings to investigate allegations of price gouging and even price fixing. According to a House estimate, the oil industry raked in a $1 billion windfall in the first week after the Iraqi invasion...
...Capitol Hill Democrats are not the only ones infuriated by the pit-bull manner of House Republican whip Newt Gingrich. G.O.P. minority leader Bob Michel can scarcely hide his irritation with his feisty subordinate. In press conferences last week, Gingrich, a member of the budget-summit conference group, lashed out at "tax-and-spend Democrats" and said it was impossible to deal with them as if they were "responsible people." Michel, charged by the White House with the task of working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when...