But in the wake of Obamacare and looking at the gridlock ensnaring the capital today, the odds of Washington acting legislatively are almost nil.
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The fact is that this congressman from the smog capital of North America has a lot of clout in Washington and the Administration has been placed in a difficult position by his very public, very strident stance.
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He sought to deepen social, political and economic contacts with Pyongyang, the northern capital, to the disquiet of Washington.
"We create companies that didn't exist before, and we create jobs that didn't exist before, " says Jonathan Silver, managing director of Core Capital Partners, a Washington, D.
When his mother's turn came, she was bought by a farmer named Isaac Riley, of Montgomery County, just outside the site of the new national capital at Washington.
"Benefit corporations are brilliant because they allow companies to pursue profit - for which no-one should apologise - and at the same time have a positive impact on society, " says corporate legal expert Laura Jordan of The Capital Law Firm in Washington DC.
It, to me, is a glaring contradiction that we would fight, and rightfully so, to get the right to vote for the people in the capital of Iraq in Baghdad, but still don't give the federal right to vote for the people in the capital of the United States, in Washington, D.
The capital of the empire is becoming a paradigm for the rest of the urban America: Washington, DC, is a predominantly black city dominated by white minority that works in the city by day but lives in the suburbs of Virginia and Maryland by night.
"It would cement a trading relationship that also could ease and open up mutually beneficial investment within the world's largest bloc of capital, " he wrote in the Washington Post.
He has little capital left in Washington, let alone the chancelleries of Old Europe.
Democrats in Texas are far more conservative than many of their Washington counterparts, and the capital's political terrain has hidden minefields that go back for decades.
And one of the most famous paintings inside the Capital Rotunda is Washington giving over his commission back to Congress after the American Revolution.
That perceived threat was one reason President Bush activated a so-called "standby" government of roughly 100 or so senior officials who stay outside of Washington and would keep government running if the capital was paralyzed by terrorist attacks.
Most presidents realize once they are in office that reforming Washington will consume too much of their political capital, generating more enemies among their opponents as well as within their own party, and the results of any such initiative will probably be negligible.
It broadcasts from centers in Doha, the capital city of the state of Qatar, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington.
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The best way to do this is to ensure that private companies have adequate capital, and there is a great deal of activity to indicate that Washington and the markets are uniting behind this goal.
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The irony, which seems to have been lost on Washington, is that an artificially low cost of capital (created by lenders who lost sight of risk management) got us into this mess in the first place, and now we're considering returning to easy money to get us out of it.
Relations between the governments in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, and Washington, DC, are deeply troubled by the issue of drones.
The BBC's Jane Little in Washington says there is a heightened sense of alert in the capital after the attacks in Boston but there is no indication so far of any connection between the two incidents.
While the policymakers in Washington may not understand economics and the basic laws of the capital markets, the legions of U.S. trained economists that advise the Chinese government understand full well that when you have more supply of something than demand, prices will fall.
Washington leaves out of the household income number such items as realized capital gains and payments from pension plans and 401(k)s.
Doctors at George Washington University Hospital, also in the capital, reported an increased in reports of pain and chronic illnesses in the week after the attacks.
This process may be great for the capital, but it's awful for productive economic activity that occurs outside the city limits of Washington, D.
Tosca was widely reported to have approached Washington Mutual in March, saying it wanted to be part of any potential capital-raising exercise the bank might take.
South Korea said it would send a parliamentary delegation to the United States to seek cooperation in resolving the crisis, and relatives of the hostages pleaded for help at Washington's embassy in the South Korean capital.
The emergence of Sudan as a front-burner issue in Washington has created growing awareness that capital markets leverage can advance respect for religious freedom -- and other human rights and national security interests in certain cases.
High turnout was reported in the northern part of the state, which includes the Washington suburbs, and in the central part of the state, which includes the capital Richmond and the college town of Charlottesville.
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The SEC's move "could represent a sea change in the way in which foreign registrants access the US capital markets, " said Roger W Robinson Jr, chairman of the William J Casey Institute, a Washington policy group with close ties to conservative groups and human rights activists.
One of the biggest lobbying fights in the nation's capital this year could involve a traditionally non-Washington subject: rock and roll.
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