Word: democratically
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However, in their fight to win the Perot vote, the Democrats might have a secret weapon: the Republicans. The congressional G.O.P.'s drive to reduce environmental, health and safety regulations, and their intention to cut Medicare deeper than the Democrats, has cost the Republicans popularity points. Surveys now show voters as likely to cast their ballots for a Democrat as a Republican in congressional races; support for the Republican Congress has also declined about 10 percentage points since the beginning of the year. Says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman: "Independents are more likely to vote against somebody than for somebody...
...better universe," says Fred Roberts, president of a Los Angeles investment-banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. "On the other hand, it's going to make individuals and entrepreneurs irrelevant because no one is going to be able to compete with these behemoths." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, puts it this way: "For us to allow there to be this concentration of media ownership would make Citizen Kane look like an underachiever...
...nearly party-line split, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to back the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee not to hold public hearings in the sexual and official misconduct case of Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood. Democrat Barbara Boxer, who had pushed for open hearings, called the decision "a miscarriage of justice." At week's end the committee announced that two more complaints of sexual misconduct had surfaced against Packwood and that it would investigate the new charges...
...Democrats in Congress have been watching Gingrich's war games with mixed feelings. The optimists in the party are hoping that by taking on so sacred a cow as Medicare, while proposing tax cuts that seem to help wealthier Americans disprortionately, the G.O.P. is inviting accusations that it lacks fairness and compassion. Republicans point to polls showing that for the first time since before the 1994 elections, Democrats are running even with Republicans in terms of public confidence, and for one reason: among voters over 65, the Democrats lead by 28 points. "This is one of those defining issues that...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified behind closed Ethics Committee doors for three hours about the propriety of his controversial book deal. Afterward, the senior Democrat on the committee accused the panel of botching the probe by refusing to conduct a full-fledged formal investigation with subpoena powers and outside counsel...