Word: democratic
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...William Jefferson, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School who became infamous when the FBI found $90,000 in his home freezer in August 2005, was charged with 16 corruption-related felonies in Virginia on Monday. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, is accused of seeking millions of dollars in bribes from companies doing business in the United States and Africa. The 94-page indictment—which charges Jefferson with bribery, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, among other things—said that he used his position as a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade...
...problem is so big, tangled and fraught that some House members prefer to let the Senate take the lead. After all, if Senate Republicans could be lured into a filibuster against a climate-change bill, they might hand the Democrats a strong issue for the upcoming presidential campaign. Dingell, who calls the Senate "a constitutional mistake," wants nothing to do with that strategy. Nor does he have any sympathy for environmentalists who believe the best thing to do is delay action until a Democrat wins the White House...
...time they approach re-enlistment, most captains have about eight years in uniform and are the most experienced officers who still work directly with new recruits. "If you start losing company-grade officers, that has a long-term, deleterious impact," said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who is himself a former Army captain...
...that unusual for a Democrat to castigate automakers in an environmental speech. But when Obama did the castigating, it was in front of the Detroit Economic Club. Nor did he help his chances of winning the endorsements of the city's big unions by asserting that any aid Washington gives the automakers for their soaring health-care costs should be tied to improving fuel efficiency...
...from annulled elections last spring. The Tribunal barred more than 100 executives from the party leadership from engaging in political activity for five years after finding that TRT had illegally bankrolled smaller parties in order to make the April 2006 elections appear legitimate. (Separate charges against the main opposition Democrat Party were dismissed, strengthening upcoming electoral hopes for the country's oldest political party.) "This is very important as a step in curing Thailand's chronic political illness: electoral fraud," says Sunai Phasuk, the Thai representative for Human Rights Watch. "But it doesn't mean...