Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic in numbers, but many members are Southerners representing stubbornly anti-union constituencies. Nor do traditional party alliances signify much to scores of freshmen and sophomore Democrats who were elected by appealing to moderate Republicans and independents. "Remember," says a political analyst at Common Cause, the liberal lobby, "a lot of these guys ran against the old politics-and there's nothing older than George Meany twisting arms." Even old-line Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a longtime friend of the unions, opposed the cornmon-situs bill because he thought it potentially...
...School, was known as a policymaker, a man who steered his own course. When he went looking for people to fill the sub-Cabinet posts at HEW, he wanted someone with financial expertise to serve as Undersecretary, the number two post in the department. He obviously wanted a Democrat, and preferably a liberal one, with some experience health, education or welfare, but he really didn't care who his nominees had supported in the primaries...
...Lexie Harrington to the Portland Oregonian: "The scientists subject these animals to massive megadoses of the substance in question, which would kill an elephant, and then triumphantly -almost gleefully-announce that they have discovered cancer or other ailments developing in the test victims." Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr., an Indiana Democrat, sarcastically introduced a bill that would allow sales of saccharin-sweetened products under the label, "Warning: the Canadians have determined that saccharin is dangerous to your rats' health...
...public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted for two of every three letters and phone calls from constituents last week-as to make it likely that some exceptions to the Delaney amendment will be enacted. Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Baltimore Democrat and a dieter who has "just lost 50 pounds," says that the saccharin ban reminds her of Prohibition: "People will use the stuff anyway. I can envision speakeasies selling diet soda...
...prices, U.S. embassy Agriculture attaches will keep tab on coffee inventories throughout the world. The U.S. Government is considering the creation of a buffer stock of 20 million 132-lb. bags, starting its buying as soon as prices fall. Says House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Fred Richmond, a New York Democrat: "We are paying $7.5 billion for green coffee beans [this year], when we paid $1.5 billion for the same amount last year. That means the American consumer is increasing foreign aid to coffee-producing countries by $6 billion-without congressional approval." Perhaps-but says Fausto Cant...