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...been in office just 14 months - about as long as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been running for President - but it's possible that the fate of the Democratic Party may just lie in their tender hands. They are the members of the 2006 freshman class on Capitol Hill, and they make up roughly a third of the 91 congressional superdelegates who have yet to pick sides in the high-stakes race between the two candidates for the presidential nomination...
...course, much of the party's leadership on Capitol Hill, such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as House and Senate Majority Leaders Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid, haven't picked candidates either, so the freshmen may have some cover when push comes to shove. But once all the primary voting is done, every superdelegate will theoretically be left to make up his or her own mind. And in that case, the biggest decision the Democratic Party could face in a generation may fall to the rawest of recruits. But, then again, perhaps that shouldn't be such...
...want to be undermining students’ health. We do not want to be undermining community morale,” Faust said. “So we are going to figure out how to address this problem.”Faust also addressed an issue raised recently on Capitol Hill—the rising cost of higher education amidst ballooning university endowments.“[Financial aid] programs are very costly for us. You know we have a large endowment but that endowment funds programs and research across a university,” Faust said. “It?...
...Boeing's backers on Capitol Hill argue that the Air Force should have factored in damage to the U.S. industrial base - and the loss of American jobs - by letting the contract to the foreign firm. (The Airbus team claims its deal will support 25,000 U.S. jobs, but Boeing says it would have created more.) Underscoring the sensitivity of the topic on Capitol Hill, a top Air Force official addressing a House hearing on Wednesday referred to the winning bid using only the name of its American partner. "Northrop Grumman brought their A-game" to the competition, said Air Force...
...morning after the four-state primary, Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, who is shepherding superdelegates for her campaign, lost no time in visiting the ones on Capitol Hill who have already voiced support for her. His message: Hold firm. To the estimated 330 supers who have yet to commit, he says, Don't do anything rash. "What we are saying to the superdelegates is, 'Hold your fire, keep your powder dry, don't make a commitment,'" Ickes says. "We're going to do our level best to show [Obama] is not the strongest candidate in a general election...