Word: democratic
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Opposition in the Senate, where the fate of the treaty would be decided, will probably be led by Democrat Jackson. Before it reaches the floor, the pact has to pass through his Subcommittee on Arms Control. He argues that while the pact establishes numerical equality in weaponry, it fails to take into account the greater size and power of Soviet missiles...
...President also must reckon with a new force on Capitol Hill: Idaho Democrat Frank Church, who will take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has vowed to make the committee a significant force in U.S. foreign policy. Says Church: "I don't want the committee to be second-guessing the President. But on the other hand, I don't want it to be subordinate to the Administration...
...Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has asked the Agriculture Department and the state extension services to make a study of alien buying of U.S. farm land. Last fall Congress passed a law that will force all foreigners to register their land ownership. At least 25 states have enacted constraints of some kind on foreign land holdings...
...pullback that had been intended to help speed the Sinai withdrawal that is to begin after a treaty is signed. In response to a series of terrorist bombings, Israeli planes attacked Palestinian camps in Lebanon for the first time since before the September session at Camp David. As Florida Democrat Richard Stone, head of the Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, put it, the Israelis appeared to have "drawn the wagons into a circle...
...rate, Gore has pulled off a nimble feat for a Democrat: outflanking Bush and taking a stand to his right on an issue that resonates with young families, a key voter group that polls suggest is still up for grabs. Gore takes Hollywood's money and lambastes it at the same time. In politics, maybe that's what passes for tough love...