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polipundit.com - 12/2/2008
US Capitol Visitor Center Opens
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It was supposed to debut YEARS ago, and 2/3 less then the budget it ended up costing, but the US Capitol Visitor Center has finally opened its very expensive doors to the public. On top of the delays and over budget cost, some displays are already coming under fire for ...
dcexaminer.com - 12/2/2008
Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore
— dcexaminer.com — The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years... behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their ... (more) Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore

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briefingroom.thehill.com - 12/2/2008
DeMint: Capitol Visitor Center Fails to Honor Faith
— briefingroom.thehill.com — Delete Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) from the list of admirers of the new Capitol Visitor Center. DeMint... issued a statement Tuesday criticizing the new facility for "omitting the history of faith." DeMint noted that the new tourist spot ignored his request ... (more) DeMint: Capitol Visitor Center Fails to Honor Faith

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politico.com - 12/10/2008
McConnell: Bailout votes aren't there
— politico.com — The auto industry bailout politics are a mess this morning. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday... that Republicans are not prepared to back the massive auto-bailout package being negotiated by the White House and congressional ... (more) McConnell: Bailout votes aren't there

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News — ... 's readers. It's not so classy for Reid to highlight the new center's odor-reducing quality when the center cost more and took longer to build than was expected, writes PoliPundit's Michael Sparxxx . FROM THE BLOGS: [image] ...

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corner.nationalreview.com 12/1/2008 — The brand new, underground Capitol Visitor Center opens to the public tomorrow. Cost to taxpayers: $621 million. I checked it out last month and wrote about it for the current issue of NRODT (subscribe!). The article is called "Washington, P.C.: The new Capitol Visitor Center has a shaky grasp ...
Shenanigans:The Capitol Visitor Center and Jim DeMint — Anne Schroeder's Blog
The one-week-old Capitol Visitor Center has had its share of controversy — it was over budget, both moneywise and timewise — but leave it up to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to find yet another issue with it. His issue is about God. Apparently the CVC “omits history of ...
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Bob Geiger : With the economy in deep recession, people losing jobs and homes every day and almost 50 million Americans with no health insurance,what's that wacky Senator Jim DeMint focusing on these days? That the new Capitol Visitor Center opened and there just aint enough God in it !  ...
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The U.S. is not a theocracy, thank god. Although there are members of Congress who want it to be one. That would include South Carolina's Jim DeMint who wants the new taxpayer funded visitor center at the Capitol to have a more "God" in it. Bob Geiger has the details (and eviscerates DeMint in ...
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Protests by conservative lawmakers led architects to promise to add "In God We Trust" as the national motto and to engrave the Pledge of Allegiance in the new $621 million Capitol Visitor Center. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, had threatened to delay Tuesday's opening of the ...
GOP Senator: Not Enough God In Capitol Visitors Center — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
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The $621 million Politically Correct Visitor Center — RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
Not only did Congress go a tiny bit over budget from $265 million, but the Vistor Center at the Capitol rewrites our politically history by ignoring the faith of our forefathers and the impact it had on our country's development. Kim at Up North Mommy has all the good quotes about it. Matthew ...
Capitol Opens $621 Million Visitor Center — Drudge Retort
The Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C. opened Tuesday amid great fanfare and excitement -- and a $621 million pricetag. "In the summertime, because the high humidity and how hot it gets in here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol," said Senate Majority Leader ...
CVC makes room for Capitol Police after complaints — Politico Live's Blogs
It may have taken years and $621 million for the Capitol Visitor Center be built but it only took overnight for Capitol Police to increase the size of their break room after news broke that their CVC quarters were too cramped. On Monday when Politico brought complaints from police union ...
God at the Capitol's new Visitor Center — Political Animal
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Christianism Watch — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Senator DeMint vents at DC's new visitor center: Visitors will enter reading a large engraving that states, ‘We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.’ This is an intentional misrepresentation of our nation’s real history, and an offensive ...
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Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) lashed out at the godless displays in the new Capital Visitor Center that opened yesterday: December 2, 2008 - Greenville, S.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement on the opening of the new Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) in ...
Michelle Malkin — News
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lacks class for suggesting that the new Capitol Visitor Center will help keep smelly tourists out of the Capitol, notes Michelle Malkin and one of her readers. Rep. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who won reelection Tuesday, is a "pro-amnesty and pro-bailout" ...
What A Relief — Daily Pundit
The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room » DeMint: Capitol Visitor Center Fails to Honor Faith Delete Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) from the list of admirers of the new Capitol Visitor Center. DeMint issued a statement Tuesday criticizing the new facility for “omitting the history of ...
DeMint: Capitol Visitor Center Fails to Honor Faith — News
Delete Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) from the list of admirers of the new Capitol Visitor Center. DeMint issued a statement Tuesday criticizing the new facility for "omitting the history of faith." DeMint noted that the new tourist spot ignored his request to include the phrase "In God We Trust" and ...
Capitol Visitor Center Opens — Real Clear Politics - TIME.com
WASHINGTON -- Congress unveiled its newly-finished, $621 million Capitol Visitor Center this morning with an hour-long ceremony. In what is called Emancipation Hall -- the main, large room of the...
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