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...safe for influence peddlers and ego strokers. But the Capitol building is no place for GEORGE CLOONEY with a minicam, say congressional leaders who banned the crew of K Street, the docudrama about a fictitious Washington lobbying firm that Clooney is producing with director Steven Soderbergh. In a letter sent to Senate staff members last week, the body's Rules and Ethics committees said the filming of the HBO show, which mixes actors with real politicians in unscripted scenes, violates rules against using Capitol space for commercial purposes. A never-aired test episode relied on impromptu dialogue in Senate halls...
...Capitol Hill, the topic is a source of mounting tension in the House Intelligence Committee, which some observers say has lagged behind its less-partisan Senate counterpart in probing the administration's handling of pre-war intelligence on Iraq. According to a knowledgeable source, a closed hearing last week saw Democratic congressman Silvestre Reyes read into the record a secret memo he'd sent Republican chairman Porter Goss and ranking Democrat Jane Harman last February - more than a month before the war. Reyes, who through an aide declined to comment, raised concern in the memo that the panel might have...
...former UNSCOM official David Kay would prove the existence of such weapons. Subsequently, officials began to downshift somewhat, stressing that evidence would be found of programs to build weapons, but not necessarily any actual weapons. But Kay himself may also have contributed to raising expectations during his Capitol Hill report-back in July, when he hinted that doubters were in for surprises when he issued his report...
TEXAS A slab on the grounds of the capitol in Austin was allowed to stay. A judge ruled last October that the monument's location did not indicate religious endorsement by the state...
...then Republican Gov. Don Sundquist proposed an income tax for state residents instead of another hike in the sales tax, which was already one of the highest in the country. The GOP all but disowned him, conservative talk show hosts began vilifying him and a mob gathered on the Capitol?s steps in Nashville hurling rocks that crashed through his window. An embittered Sundquist settled for another penny hike in the sales tax then left office when his term ended last January, refusing to campaign for the Republican candidate who wanted to replace...