Capitol Hill

English Proper noun Capitol hill The hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol is located, where Congress holds its sessions. en She spent a great deal of time culturing new contacts on Capitol Hill. en neighborhood city/Washington, D.C. c/USA. en metonym the United States Congress en 1975 Ralph de Toledano Hit & Run: The Rise--And Fall?--Of Ralph Nader 120 Let me put it this way: The girl in question was no novice to Washington nor to the ways of Capitol Hill. en 2000 Jeffrey M. Berry The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups 102 At the same time, the failure of conservatives to invest in Capitol Hill lobbying that could be coordinated with their grass-roots efforts represents a strategic misallocation of resources. en 2005 Yanek Mieczkowski Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s 62 The Ninety-fourth Congress would be emphatically Democratic, and Ford's base of support on Capitol Hill would be narrower and weaker. en 2007 Alan Greenspan The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World 233 I cannot count how many letters I received from Capitol Hill in the 1990s outlining one scheme or another to spend more or tax less en 2007 John W. Dean Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches 30 A political reality of Capitol Hill is that the party in control has always taken care of its own and, as the minority sees it, gives them "the shaft." en October 10, 2007 David M. Herszenhorn Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10memo.html Republicans on Capitol Hill, who were gearing up to use Graeme as evidence that Democrats have overexpanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, have backed off. https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032851/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10memo.html en Cecilia Kang OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing w:The New York Times 2023-05-16 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html 0362-4331 Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies. https://web.archive.org/web/20230701084621/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html en neighborhood city/Denver state/Colorado c/USA. en neighborhood city/Seattle state/Washington c/USA. Synonyms neighborhood in Denver en Cap Hill neighborhood in Seattle en Cap Hill Translations the hill in Washington, DC Arabic: ar كَابِيتُول هِيل m kābitul hil Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 國會山 Guóhuìshān Finnish: fi Capitol Hill French: fr Capitole m, fr colline du Capitole f, fr Capitol Hill m Georgian: ka კაპიტოლიუმის ბორცვი German: de Capitol Hill n, de Kapitol n Japanese: ja キャピトル・ヒル Kyapitoru-Hiru Russian: ru Капитоли́йский холм m, ru Капито́лий m Congress en Hills