Word: asks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they're concerned the GOP's platform of deregulation is what caused this problem, and it's a GOP President - however unpopular - who is demanding this fix. They view Boehner's stance with deep suspicion. If enough Republicans did not support the bill, why, they ask, did Republican Senator Bob Bennett and Representative Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the House Banking Committee, stand at the press conference on Thursday announcing the agreement and voice their support? Why wait until a meeting at the White House to throw out a raft of alternative solutions that the Administration had already rejected...
...Even as they prepared for their debate, both McCain and Obama stressed that they would be returning to Washington over the weekend to participate in the negotiations. Whether that will help or hurt progress depends on which party you ask. House Republicans Friday hailed McCain's leadership on Capitol Hill, arguing he had given them a voice after they had been all but ignored in the horsetrading earlier in the week. "McCain came into town and the message there that House Republicans are relevant, we're not going to roll the House Republicans, we're not going to gang...
...Rights South. After 12 years of Republican rule and alongside a solidly Democratic Congress, the new administration promised something resembling a new consensus, one that would finally recapture the ideal of an active and charitable government, delivering on healthcare, union rights, and equal pay.Then came Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Hillarycare. Then the Contract with America and the ’94 midterms. Then two government shutdowns. Then Monica Lewinsky. And then, and then, and then.By 1999, Democrats had been out-bullied by a Republican political machine capitalizing on the very same Culture...
...these reasons we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action,” the professors added...
...Cain: "No Wall Street executives should profit from taxpayer dollars. It is wrong to ask teachers and farmers and small-business owners to fill the gas tanks of the helicopters of Wall Street tycoons...