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Citizens Against Government Waste: The Capitol Visitor Center: A Boondoggle in the Making?
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WASHINGTON, June 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government
Waste (CAGW) sees a potential boondoggle-in-the-making with the
recent approval of the Capitol Visitor Center, an immense underground
information center to be constructed beneath the Capitol lawn over
the next three years. The 580,000 square-foot facility will be the
largest addition to the Capitol building since the Civil War.
Currently in the contracting stages, the project has already run into
funding problems and construction delays.
"The Capitol Visitor Center shows all the signs of becoming a
quintessential government ...
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Welcome to Washington; The Capitol Visitor Center is completed -- finally.
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; ...very low expectations for the Capitol Visitor Center. Even before the huge cost...the taxpayers' money, the Visitor Center is an obscenity. The watchdog...intelligence of the citizenry, the Visitor Center is a smash hit -- the best...
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PELOSI REMARKS AT OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
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; ...Opening Ceremony of the Capitol Visitor Center Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam...ceremony of the United States Capitol Visitor Center (CVC). Below are her remarks...Terrie will oversee a new Capitol Visitor Center that incorporates many environmentally...
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U.S. SENATOR WAYNE ALLARD (R-CO) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR WAYNE ALLARD (R-CO) HOLDS A HEARING ON THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
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; ...BRANCH HOLDS A HEARING ON THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER OCTOBER 18, 2005 SPEAKERS...HIXON, PROJECT DIRECTOR, CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER BERNARD UNGAR, DIRECTOR...year on the progress of the Capitol Visitor Center. We welcome once again Architect...
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U.S. SENATOR WAYNE ALLARD (R-CO) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR WAYNE ALLARD (R-CO) HOLDS HEARING ON CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
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; ...BRANCH HOLDS A HEARINGS ON CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER PROGRESS JULY 14, 2005 SPEAKERS...ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE BOB HIXON, CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER PROJECT EXECUTIVE [*] ALLARD...testimony on the progress of the Capitol Visitor Center. We will hear from the architect...
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Capitol Visitor Center Finally Opens [DP]
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Capitol Visitor Center Opens Dec. 2
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