She is lobbying on Capitol Hill for federal legislation that would incent the states to enact laws similar to the one just enacted in Virginia.
Over on Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy isn't threatened by 1970's-style stagflation, but he indicated that some banks could fail before the malaise subsides.
There are bills and proposals floating around the Hill, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Commerce Department.
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Federal investigators held hearings on Capitol Hill last month on the cause of the crash but have not concluded their inquiry.
Meanwhile, it remains to be seen whether this latest move will quell concerns coming from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, like the Federal Trade Commission, who have received a number of complaints about Facebook.
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Many of Howard's students have behind-the-scenes access to the political system with the privilege of regularly participating in internship programs at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and other federal government agencies, because of the school's location in the nation's capital.
The National Mall could easily monopolise an entire vacation but to find additional fulfilment for you and the kids venture beyond the tourist zone to Capitol Hill, a charming Federal-style neighbourhood that has dutifully served as the capital's living quarters for centuries.
Some Washington lobbyists, including those who have done work for Google, said that the Get Your Business Online effort has perhaps had more impact on federal lawmakers than any lobbying done on Capitol Hill.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, on Capitol Hill Tuesday to promote his plan to exorcise excessive risk-taking from the banking system, says one of the biggest persistent problems is the inherent conflicts banks have between managing their own interests and managing those of their clients.
As for the companies that claim harm from federal financing of exports, they have a steep hill to climb in explaining how their circumstances would be improved if U.S. exporters yielded market share to companies making similar products in other countries.
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As US federal debt approaches its statutory ceiling, confidence on Capitol Hill is growing that a deal to raise the limit will soon be struck, avoiding the theoretical possibility of default.
Lobbyists swarm Capitol Hill, the White House, and the multitudinous federal bureaucracies throughout Washington.
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Some analysts said a sale became likely in June when Commerce's iconoclastic founder, Vernon Hill, was forced out in a settlement with federal regulators concerning dealings with other entities in which he and his family had interests.
This would entail the "Loyal Opposition" in Congress joining the executive branch and its new GOP majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill in a mobilization of the American people and federal resources in a heretofore- unprecedented effort to secure our homeland.
Meanwhile, on the federal level, a bill currently being bandied about on the Hill would force companies that track location on more than 5, 000 devices to notify users that their location information is being collected and stored, making this kind of surreptitious monitoring harder to do.
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They invited Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers over to Capitol Hill to give their views on the prospect.
Furthermore, the fact that the federal government continued to expand under Bush -- both when Republicans and Democrats controlled Capitol Hill -- made it difficult to sell Republican arguments about the dangers of big government.
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The bailout plan has met with a cool reception in two days of hearings on Capitol Hill, where both Democrats and Republicans have expressed skepticism about the proposal drafted by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
The latest announcement comes a day after Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met with leaders from both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill Thursday to begin work on a plan of action to help relieve banks of their toxic assets.
When the idea of a federal takeover of this facility was first floated last year, it ran into strenuous opposition on both sides of Capitol Hill.
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