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...Capitol Hill and the White House have their own institutionalized pageantry (think the State of the Union address), but when Dale Bosley, the marshal of the Supreme Court, came into the chamber on Friday to declare, "God save the United States and this honorable court," it was hard not to feel a little bit moved. At a time when presidential candidates buss their wives on TV and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives don't speak for months at a time, the ringing proclamation of "Oyez, oyez, oyez" was exhilarating, a signal that the highest court...
...House and federal agencies to directing foreign and defense policy to negotiating with Congress. And the 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate would turn the Vice President's largely ceremonial role as president of the upper chamber into something far more serious, summoning Cheney to Capitol Hill for every important vote in case he's needed to break a tie. Last week even Bush's syntax reinforced the idea that Cheney was in charge. "One of these days all this is going to stop," Bush said of the Florida legal battles, "and Dick Cheney...
...served from 1961 to '98; in San Antonio, Texas. The first Mexican American to represent Texas, "Henry B." developed his combative style in the 1930s by boxing in illegal matches to pay his college tuition, eventually becoming a Golden Gloves champ--a skill he almost used in a Capitol Hill cloakroom on a G.O.P. colleague who called him a "pinko." In 1989 he became chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee, speaking out on the S.-and-L. scandals and Iraqi arms sales--and calling for President Bush's impeachment. Though a hero to South Texas Hispanics, Gonzalez refused...
Late last Friday afternoon, Senator Patrick Leahy, the gentlemanly Democrat from Vermont, sequestered himself in his office on Capitol Hill and ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal...
...This "Vintage Collection," released in 1996, is one of a series from Capitol Records (other artists featured include Merle Haggard, the Louvin Brothers and Hank Thompson). Sadly, it has been discontinued. All the tracks were recorded at Nashville's Columbia Studio B, the famed Quonset Hut on Music Row, with producer Pappy Daily lining up the city's finest session men - the legendary "A Team" - including Buddy Emmons on pedal steel, Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano and Curtis McPeak on banjo. It's well worth seeking out on Ebay or in the bargain bins...