Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought it was almost unscientific to get involved in conservation politics," says Lovejoy. "But no more. The rate of species loss is suddenly dawning on people." The warning has been heeded in government circles as well. The House of Representatives two weeks ago passed legislation sponsored by Gus Yatron, Democrat of Pennsylvania, mandating that the U.S. Agency for International Development set aside $10 million to preserve biodiversity...
...Nunn (D-GA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "The chances of any kind of nuclear detonation are very, very...
There would not, for example, be a pronounced change in the conduct of most major Senate committees if the Democrats won the chairmanships by gaining control. In many cases, the current ranking Democrat on a committee is ideologically simpatico with the present Republican chairman. On the Budget Committee, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles has generally agreed with New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. Both have criticized the President's budget proposals over the years. A Democratic majority would give the President a little bit more of a fight on domestic spending cuts and probably increase the chance of a tax hike...
That much oatmeal between glossy red-white-and-blue covers made the party's surviving left wing gag. Observed Ann Lewis, director of the Americans for Democratic Action: "It was not the stuff that energizes voters." Pointing out that Democratic primary voters this year have recoiled from centrist candidates, she added, "Every primary in which there was a clear choice between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving...
...could be talking about that," replied Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee...