Word: congress
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...addition to facing the heat of angry neighbors, Grogan will oversee Harvard's team of lobbyists, who shuttle betweenWashington and Cambridge and fight in Congress onsuch diverse issues as campus crime reporting,library copyright rules and trademarking of theHarvard name...
...Congress prepares to step up its investigation into the President's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky, some of the most sought-after political pundits are airing their views daily in Harvard's classrooms...
...then votes to impeach the President, a final vote on conviction in the Senate may not take place until next summer. In the meantime, the President will continue to be as hindered as he has appeared to be in the weeks since the Starr Report was delivered to Congress. Staff and supporters will continue to jump ship, other leading Democrats will keep their distance and the media will keep on giving short shrift to substantive issues...
WASHINGTON: OK, this impeachment thing is pretty important. But with only days left before Congress hits the campaign trail, the global economy is still burning. And most of the world would prefer the House do its fiddling over something a little more proactive -- like giving the IMF the $18 billion it desperately needs to keep pouring water on the fast-spreading economic blaze. The Senate Republicans have already cleared the money, but in the House, GOP leaders still want to dictate firefighting terms to the international fund, calling for less secrecy, tougher lending terms and shorter repayment time for borrowing...
...Thankfully, elections are just around the corner. TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl says that fear of a voter backlash -- always politics' most potent motivator -- may end up pushing Republicans into a compromise passage. "There has to be a point when Congress realizes that unless this money is released to the IMF, the world recession is going to engulf the U.S.," he says. "And that would leave the Republicans as the ones who allowed it to happen...