Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knowing that the report would exonerate Reagan of complicity in the contra connection, the Administration had been pressuring the Intelligence Committee to make its findings public. Taking their cue from the White House, many Republican lawmakers were demanding immediate disclosure. Democratic Senators contended that the current draft was still incomplete and full of inconsistencies. Moreover, 13 Administration officials -- including members of the CIA and the NSC -- had been allowed to inspect the text, deleting portions they deemed diplomatically sensitive or dangerous to national security. And since neither North nor Poindexter would testify, the findings were far from complete. Said...
...mount a serious campaign next winter, a candidate must raise more than $3 million this year. Already potential contributors are scouting the field; in Phoenix this weekend, 36 Democratic donors who have formed a group called Impac '88 met to discuss uniting behind one candidate early on. Meanwhile, skeletal campaign organizations were adding expert meat to their bones. Babbitt last week became the first Democrat to form a full-fledged campaign committee. In the past fortnight senior strategists also took posts in the campaigns of Kemp, Du Pont, Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt...
...many observers who have battled the B-1B for over a decade, current problems merely confirm long-held doubts. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "For most of the aircraft's useful life, it will not be able to penetrate (Soviet airspace) and will be a standoff carrier of cruise missiles and conventional bombs." The U.S., concludes Nunn, "could have built that kind of system much cheaper than we have built...
After meeting with Communist leaders last weekend, Representative Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat and chairman of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, told reporters that there was only a "very slim chance" for peace. Though Aquino maintains that she will use force only as a last resort, Communist Negotiator Antonio Zumel said the New People's Army "shall remain ready to pull the trigger...
There lingers, too, an affection for the man and an awe of the office that, if properly marshaled, could get the country solidly behind him again. A White House staffer chuckled last week as he recalled the tart-tongued Pat Schroeder, Democrat from Colorado, knifing through the mob at the White House Christmas party so she could be photographed with the President. Indeed, several hundred color shots of legislators posing with the President landed on congressional desks last week, and many of the prints are already down in the frame shop. The newcomers were openly eager for their first invitation...