Word: capitol
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...CAPITOL HILL REPUBLICANS dismissed their vanquished foes late last week with a half-hearted round of "So long, fellas; we hate to see you go," the New and Revived Right began reshuffling its direct-mail listings for 1982. The arch-conservatives have claimed a healthy share of the credit for the GOP victory and now promise to redouble their assault on all liberals. Anyone left of Kemp-Roth, be he Democrat or Republican, had better head for cover, they warn...
...Reagan people and their friends on Capitol Hill are on the wrong track already, thinking that what we called for was a return to 'normalcy,'" says Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, a low-profile organization that helps set the New Right's agenda and sees that it receives attention throughout the country...
...lame duck session many observers predicted would achieve little more than passage of interim appropriation bills has produced a surprising volume of legislation, several heated procedural confrontations, and a blunt foreshadowing of the ascendency of the right on Capitol Hill...
...Capitol Hill sources agree that supporters of registration will have a difficult time pushing a bill through Congress that would authorize funds for the registration of women as well as men. A Congressional subcommittee rejected a measure which included women earlier this year...
Testifying on Capitol Hill last week, Volcker said he wishes that the Federal Reserve had done better at anticipating the latest money supply surge, which was fueled by the Government's need to finance the large budget deficit and by a burst of business and consumer borrowing that began at about midsummer. But in both his congressional testimony and statements to reporters, Volcker left no doubt that the Fed intends to continue "consistently and unambiguously" to restrain money and credit. Not only did he strongly deny reports that he was planning to resign before his term expires...