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Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.
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- A Day of Contradictions
- White House Punts as the Wackenhuts Blitz
- '70s Conservation Measures May Make a Comeback
- Tilting at the Social Security Windmill
- Piling on the Defenders of U.S. Policy in Iraq
- Newshounds on the Paper Chase
- Deploying Cindy's Antiwar Army
- Antagonist of the Left Expresses Righteous Indignation About Roberts
- The Reformer and the Gadfly Agree on Health Care
- A Day of Courtesy for Judge Roberts and Democratic Senators on Capitol Hill
- Word for Word, Schumer Meets His Match
- The One and Only President Clinton (for Now)
- Spokesman Holds Tongue During Intense Grilling
- Word From O'Connor Sets Off Pre-Fourth Fireworks
- Only Vacancy Is in Supreme Court News
- At the Pentagon, Polls Apart
- The Commander in Chief Furls 'Mission Accomplished'
- One Committee's Three Hours of Inquiry, in Surreal Time
- The Tenacious Trio
- Out of President's Sight, Arlington's Rows of Grief Expand
- Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War
- Lawmakers Struggle to See Beneath the 'Froth' in Greenspan's Testimony
- Seldom-Discussed Elephant Moves Into Public's View
- With a New Voice, the U.S. Has Less to State
- Bush as a Uniter -- of Diverse Democrats
- Spelling Nuance With a W
- A Day the Wings Were Left to Flap
- AIPAC's Big, Bigger, Biggest Moment
- The Chamber Meets the Force
- The Killer Instinct
- Almost Unnoticed, Bipartisan Budget Anxiety
- A Defection on the GOP Side
- Democrat Reid Shoots From the Lip
- DeLay Tries, Without Much Success, to Duck the Media Pack
- No Light at the End of the Tour
- Where Does the Bean Soup Fit In?
- With the Plebes, Firing Broadsides, Dropping Depth Charges, Dodging a Bullet
- Rove's Reading: Not So Liberal as Leery
- The Loneliest Republican
- Nominee Reacts Mildly to Democrats' Barbs
- And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty
- Same Committee, Same Combatants, Different Tune
- Whitman's Moderation in Opposition Won't Win Her Fight Within GOP
- After 14-Month Inquiry, Many Questions Remain
- With Giant Spoon, Fla. Woman Helps Stir Up Schiavo Protest Across From White House
- Final Day of Nomination Hearings: Yawn.
- Downgrades for Brown's Topical Storm
- The Once and Future Big Enchilada
- For President Under Duress, Body Language Speaks Volumes
- A Day of Questioning, More Questioning and . . . No Questions
- Some Critics Still See Bugs
- An Iraq Policy, Better Late Than Never
- Mad About You
- Tough Times for the 'Sissy Six'
- Oil and Grilling Don't Mix
- Fed Nominee's First Feat: Bridging the Partisan Divide
- An Unlikely Lonesome Dove
- Rumsfeld's War On 'Insurgents'
- Repetitious, Yes, but They Didn't Cut and Run
- Throughout a City, Lessons of the Fall
- Even Before Alito Hearings, the Verdicts Are In
- For Would-Be Lobbying Reformers, Money Habit Is Hard to Kick
- Tasting Victory, Liberals Instead Have a Food Fight
- McClellan Takes Aim at Cheney
- Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?
- Orange Morning Gives Way to a Darker Afternoon
- High Court's Newbie Rounds the Learning Curve
- Ports and a Storm
- Every Inlet an Outlet for Anger Over Ports
- On Immigration and Ports, Turning Inward
- At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic
- Bush's Refrain on Iraq Joined by a Smaller and Smaller Chorus
- The Feingold Resolution and the Sound of Silence
- Welcome to Spend City
- A Punchy President Meets the Press
- A 'Unified Command Structure' in Search of a Leader
- In the Name of Self-Defense, a Terrorist's Grand Delusion
- Redemption Among the Faithful
- Redemption Among the Faithful
- All Eyes on the Hammer, Until the Hairdo Steps In
- For Snow, More Dire Forecasts and a Chill on the Hill
- For Clinton, a Chance to Evoke Better Days
- A Democratic Dark Horse Who Isn't Afraid to Take the Lead
- Meet the Secretary of Serenity
- Plenty of Embarrassment to Go Around
- GOP Unity Headed Off at the Impasse
- Going a Short Way to Make a Point
- Serving Up Social Security and Medicare, Without the Fixings
- Coburn Dines Alone as the Senate Buffet Piles on the Pork
- The Committee on Government Reform, Really
- Scandals Left and Right
- Take Two of These and Call Us Next Year
- Did You Hear the One About . . . Bipartisanship?
- From the New Kid, Proceedings With Caution
- It's Not What Snow Doesn't Say, It's How He Doesn't Say It
- Karl Rove, Bullish on the Budget and the Border
- Hayden, King of Acronyms
- Punting the Interesting Answers to the Secret Session
- So $90,000 Was in the Freezer. What's Wrong With That?
- Suddenly, It's a Steel-Cage Match With the White House

