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Capitol Hill Quotes
Views from inside the building where policy gets made.
Capitol Hill reads differently depending on who's talking — a reporter calls covering it the Best beat in Washington, a former member of Congress recalls exactly where duty took them on that single defining day in September 2001.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comey made mistakes, but they weren't made out of self-interest. To deny he wasn't put into political positions by lawmakers on Capitol Hill or on the campaign trail would be placing blame in the wrong place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.
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- Nov 07, 2020