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With polls showing as many as 80% of Nevadans opposed to the project, however, bargaining would be political suicide. Before he makes any deal to take nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Reid says, he'll be "on top of the Capitol doing a full body dive." That's a performance the nuclear industry would pay admission...
...Each man also had his own style behind closed doors. Thursday morning, with the first vote on the bill just hours away, McCain raced his car to the Capitol Hill Club to crash a breakfast meeting Environmental Protection Agency Director Christine Todd Whitman was having with a group of GOP congressmen. As Whitman droned on about Bush's environmental policy, all eyes in the room shifted to McCain who darted from table to table extracting whispered pledges of support from four moderates. Three blocks away, Gephardt huddled with Democrats in a packed basement room off the House chamber, waving...
...count on practically all Democrats supporting a procedural vote the party's leadership wanted. But to win, some Republicans had to be convinced to defy their Speaker, a heresy Hastert wouldn't forget. McCain dialed up the pressure. At one point he hauled seven GOP congressmen into Gephardt's Capitol office and, looking each one in the eye, asked if they'd "vote against the rule." Each said...
McCain defended his action, saying that he had followed a common practice for gathering support on Capitol Hill...
...Washington intern who was about to leave D.C., has become a media obsession. Representative Gary Condit, the California Congressman who supposedly had an affair with Levy, agreed to cooperate with DC police this week by taking a lie detector test and letting them search his apartment in the capitol...