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Show Senate in a Hole Many Americans these troubled days look to Congress to solve all their pesky problems. Perhaps these Americans had better look to see how Congress is getting along with its own problems. When the Senate planned a new office building for itself, it omitted omit-ted to include a subway, running to the Capitol. Later, it appropriated appro-priated $3 million to build this private railway line. It set up a couple of commissions for Capitol Hill projects, and divided the responsibility res-ponsibility between them. Today , the new subway is near completion. Imagine the footsore Senator' horror when they discovered dis-covered that their subway doesn't go anywhere. It ends in a hole in the ground 300 feet from the Capitol, and across the street from it. And so there will have to be a new appropriation of $4 million to run that railroad on into the Capitol basement to save 100 Senators Sen-ators a few steps everyday. The blame is put upon the commissions and the divided authority. v Of course , multiple commissions comm-issions and divided authority are nothing new in our government, and this kind of result is nothing new either. |