Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the party retained two House seats in special elections in Texas and California last week, the Democrats have no clearly enunciated national agenda and, perhaps worse, no one to enunciate it. To a notable lack of enthusiasm, Brown nominated himself for the role. More logical choices are House Speaker Tom Foley and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, since the Democrat-controlled Congress is where differences between the parties can be most sharply defined. But both leaders are cautious and, to their critics, the kind of nice guys who don't win pennants. Last week showed...
WASHINGTON--The House Republican leader said yesterday that the Barney Frank case was becoming "a stain upon the House of Representatives," as allies of the embattled Democrat tried to quell suggestions he was near resignation...
...Robert Michel (R-III.) asserted that the Massachusetts Democrat was benefiting from a double standard that would have dealt more harshly with other members of Congress in similar circumstances...
Their pick: Seattle Mayor Charles T. Royer, a Democrat from the Pacific seaboard with a background in journalism...
...Royer insists, "Since it will probably be 16 years before there's a Democrat in the White House, I told them not to worry...