Word: democratically
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...bilingual education, charged that rising college tuitions and cafeteria-style curriculums were a rip-off and assailed fat in congressional education budgets. Except for hearty support from President Reagan, whom Bennett strove mightily to please, most reaction from lawmakers and educators ranged from bemusement to cold rage. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, summed up the early opinion: "I would give him failing grades...
Reflecting on the Secretary's overall performance, Illinois Democrat Paul Simon of the Senate's Education, Arts and Humanities Subcommittee gives him a C-minus for his sophomore year. Notes an unimpressed Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association: "He seems more interested in sparring with us than in sitting down and solving problems." But Old Footballer Bennett appears to disdain report cards from anyone but the Gipper himself. "I have a lot of ideas for 1987," he told Reagan when the President called him on Christmas Eve. "We have the ball and we are going to run with...
...voters are coming around to the view that 1988 might be the time for a change in political direction. A poll taken last week for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman* indicates that 41% of Americans think "it would be better for the country" if the next President were a Democrat, 31% & think the next President should be a Republican, and 19% say it makes no difference. That is a sharp gain for Democrats since last September, when only 33% agreed that after eight years of Ronald Reagan, the nation would be better served by a Democrat...
...Somerville Democrat said he was at the Statehouse 248 days in 1984--more than any of the other 159 state representatives that year-despite a 40.6 percent roll-call attendance record...
Leading the congressional efforts to deal with the deficit will be the chairmen of the two budget committees. On the Senate side, the budget panel will have a new chief, Democrat Lawton Chiles of Florida. Chiles is no stranger to the budget wars. In years past he worked so closely with the former Republican budget chairman, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, that the two men became known as the Bobbsey Twins. In the process, Chiles earned a reputation as a sincere and often effective budget cutter...