Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the California vote will reduce federal income tax deductions of residents and thus give Washington a windfall of $2.3 billion a year. But Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs has introduced a bill requiring such revenue to be used to reduce the national debt or budget deficit. Argued Jacobs: "You can't just say, 'Wowee, $2 billion more for spending.' " In general, however, Washington politicians predicted that Proposition 13 would have less impact at the federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable...
...Ionia, Mich., two bedfellows are making for strange politics. Robert Cusack, 38, and his wife Beverly, 35, who are both real estate agents, have been arguing at home about politics for years. Now they are both running for the same county commission seat, he as a Democrat, she as a Republican...
From the start, Jarvis was a dedicated right-winger. He and his father once campaigned for separate seats in the Utah state legislature, Judge John Ransome Jarvis running as a Democrat, his son as a Republican. Howard managed his father's winning campaign as well as his own unsuccessful one. At a 1931 G.O.P. convention in Chicago, he shared a suite at a crowded hotel with a California district attorney named Earl Warren...
Clifford Case was first elected to Congress in 1944, when Democrat Bill Bradley and Republican Jeffrey Bell were babies. For 34 years the liberal New Jersey Republican defied the odds, winning election to Congress five times and to the Senate four times in a state where there are now 1.5 million Democrats and only 500,000 Republicans...
...Young, "I was told that my coverage would be terminated in 15 days, not only on the policies on my three vehicles, but also on the farm policy I have had for eleven years with Western Reserve's sister company, Lightning Rod Mutual." Young protested to his Senator, Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, and his coverage was extended after an aide to Metzenbaum phoned the insurance companies...