Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite of many committee members is Ronald Reagan, who is readily conceded by all competitors to be the front runner. Considering the ill fortune of such past early leaders as Republican George Romney in 1968 and Democrat Edmund Muskie in 1972, Connally said of Reagan: "I do not envy his position...
...state primary siege that lies ahead, the age issue may not loom large. On ideology, Reagan and Connally have both staked out similar conservative positions. Reagan may be handicapped most by having lost last time. Connally's biggest liability remains the fact that he was once a Democrat and was once close to Nixon. In addition, although he was found innocent in 1975 of accepting $10,000 in bribes from dairymen, there was little doubt that he had helped them get higher price supports in the hope, if not a pledge, that they would support Nixon...
Undeterred, Long had to move fast, since the full Democratic caucus would meet the next day to ratify committee assignments. "There's more than one way to skin a cat," confided a Long intimate. "You lose the first way, then you fall back on plan B." Long decided to increase the size of his Finance Committee by adding another Democrat and Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman...
...that it should be as lean as possible. Even liberals acknowledge that the nation's problems do not appear to yield to money and to Government intervention. "We haven't had the pruning of the programs that don't work," admits Abner Mikva, a leading liberal Democrat who was re-elected from Chicago's North Shore suburbs by a scant 1,000 votes. "Because of that, all of Government is carrying a burden of presumed incompetence and inefficiency...
...will be on defense spending, which Carter wants to boost by 3% in real dollars. Exercising more influence in the Budget Committee than in the House as a whole, advocates of increased social spending may be able to prevent the hike in military spending. Says David Obey, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin: "I am not going to tell old people that they have to bear a double load because our NATO allies need more money for defense...