Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silence is over. The cameras are in place, the microphones tuned, the TV networks willing, even eager, to drop their soap operas and go live to Capitol Hill. Investigators are armed with several cartons of papers turned over last week by the witness to guide their questioning. This week, after seven months of claiming his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, Oliver North at last appears before the congressional committees probing the Iran- contra affair and begins to talk in public...
...Capitol Hill, feelings are still ruffled by the incident. Said Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas: "A lot of people are in prison in this country for doing a lot less than Toshiba did." The House is weighing measures similar to those passed by the Senate. If the President vetoes the trade bill and thus the sanctions, the penalties could still be introduced as separate legislation. In that circumstance, Congress is expected to have enough votes to override a veto...
Meese and Baker headed next to Capitol Hill, where they showed their list to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, and then to Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., who warned of a Senate fight over Bork. At a Washington hotel Wednesday morning, White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse interrogated Bork over coffee to satisfy himself that the potential nominee had no awkward club memberships, dubious financial dealings or medical problems...
...monuments, too, can require renovation. Witness the perennial stalemates between Congress and the President. The weakening of party allegiance among voters has meant that only three postwar Presidents have enjoyed four years in which their own party has controlled both houses of Congress. When the White House and Capitol Hill thwart each other on Central America or engage in mutual finger pointing on the national debt, the separation of powers that was the chief innovation of the framers can seem a mixed blessing...
...Presidency: The Administration's authority to take action has been hemmed in by Congress as well as special interests and the media, cramping opportunities for creative national leadership. -- A built-in constitutional conflict over the power to make war has flared into open discord between Capitol Hill and the White House...