Word: democratically
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Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...representative. Hartley did not help his cause by saying; "I'm amazed at the publicity for the loss of a few birds '' Most heated were his exchanges with Maine s conservation-minded Edmund Muskie, but it appeared that the Senator would have the last word. The Democrat's Water Quality Improvement bill, which was waylaid during the 90th Congress, was given a much better chance of passage in the wake of the Santa Barbara foul-up. Even the American Petroleum Institute, which had represented the industry in fighting the bill, now gave its blessings. Among other...
Financial Fine Point. Democrat Unruh dismissed the plan as a "fraud" on the ground that all of the surplus?due partly to Reagan-imposed economies, partly to an inflationary increase in revenues?will be on hand at the end of the current fiscal year (June 30). Whether or not that should entitle taxpayers to collect it on this year's tax returns (filing deadline: April 15) may be a fine point of finance, but Unruh was the first to admit that it mattered a great deal politically. "He has no right," he objected, "to keep it in the state treasury...
President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...
Little Chance. Now the beleaguered agency has a new chief, the first woman ever to boss a U.S. regulatory commission. She is Virginia Mae Brown, 45, a lively brunette and loyal Democrat who was appointed to the eleven-member commission in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson. Having succeeded to the ICC's annually rotating chairmanship this year, she leads a staff of 1,784 that processes about 6,000 cases a year. "Peaches" Brown, as the ICC's $29,500-a-year chairman is known, also manages to take care of two children and make frequent trips home...