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...first stopping point for budget, tax and Medicare legislation, went to the White House to meet one-on-one with the President. Washington veterans were reminded of the days when Ronald Reagan would sometimes bypass Speaker Tip O'Neill to horse-trade directly with Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. "A lot of the membership would no longer make the argument that Newt is indispensable," says an aide to a House Republican leader. Still there is no obvious replacement for the man who is the most creative and energetic leader his party has produced in a generation, and whose vision...
...their common desire not to allow the investigations of either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from...
...they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Senators Dan Coats and John Ashcroft, will meet for the first time this week to push a menu of compassion-loaded programs, including flextime, charity tax credits and enterprise zones. Says Kasich: "How kids get educated, how families are doing, how our environment is doing, medical care. Those are the issues...
...leafless trees, and overcast skies. He is the center of attention, not the murders, but the audience doesn’t mind as Capote’s quips break the tension.Despite a tremendous rookie effort (Miller has one documentary and a slate of TV commercials to his name; writer Dan Futterman, making his screenwriting debut, is better known for his roles in “The Birdcage” or on TV’s “Judging Amy”) there are a few missteps from the new guys. Viewers are pounded with occasional hammer-to-the-head...
...skinny, artistic-looking students dressed in black ran around frantically with tape rolls hanging from their arms and HSA workers prepared to man the bar. “I don’t think people understand the amount of work each Pub night takes,” says Dan J. Zaccagnino ’05, co-founder of Veritas Records, the group that helps put pub nights together. Born in 2003 as a support system for student bands, Veritas Records saw 2004 as a year to expand. When they heard the administration was accepting new grant applications for social events...