Posts Tagged ‘Capitol Hill’
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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Fighting Crime on Capitol Hill
Posted on October 22, 2015
Like many of my neighbors, I like to check the crime blogs. I’m not a budding novelist. I just like to know where the knuckleheads are doing their worst. I...
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The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
Posted on July 26, 2011
President Obama has not been shy lately in trying to use the power of the bully pulpit to get his way on Capitol Hill. It is not clear that his...
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Expiration Date
Posted on April 4, 2011
As anybody who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock in the 1970’s knows (“I am just a bill, I am only a bill and I am sitting here on Capitol Hill, but...
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D.C. Scholarships
Posted on March 30, 2011
I was driving into work this morning, listening to Tim Farley’s always excellent morning show on the POTUS channel of XM/Sirius radio, as he interviewed Washington D.C.’s delegate to Congress,...
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