Word: democratically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hillary Clinton's former research director Judd Legum released a bulletin about Steele's controversial record shortly after his election as RNC chair; reports alleged that Steele hired homeless people to pass out campaign flyers that portrayed him as a Democrat, and that he once compared stem cell research to Nazi Holocaust experiments...
...Summers has more credibility with Republicans than many other Obama officials do. He did an early stint in the economic back room of the Reagan White House and helped calm the markets during various mini-crises during the go-go 1990s. But Summers has long identified himself as a Democrat and has often leaned toward the left edge of the centrist economic consensus that has driven our recent financial history. "His solutions tend to be government-led, progressive structuring of the market for what he perceives as the greater social good," explains the new Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner...
...present any evidence to counter the sworn statements under oath," said Bill Haine, state senator from Alton, explaining his vote to toss the governor. He was the first senator to go on record after Blagojevich spoke, and the fact that he's a fellow Democrat indicated that the die was cast. "I wish him luck on his new Hollywood career," added Republican Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale. (See the top 10 scandals...
...Early last year, Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts saw the opposing trends and wanted to add an extra $30 million to the kitty, while Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, and other Senators wanted to ante up another $50 million. This year, the House approved an SEC budget of $928 million, while the Senate approved $938 million, a 2% to 3% increase, which is greater than the 1% hike former chairman Christopher Cox requested from the 2008 budget of $906 million. The final budget, part of the government's "Continuing Resolutions," has yet to be approved...
...election. But special elections in Texas have an unpredictable quality. In 1961, after Lyndon B. Johnson's move from the Senate to the vice presidency, Republican John Tower emerged from among 70 contenders to win a seat he went on to hold for 24 years. Then, in 1993, when Democratic U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen became Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Governor Ann Richards named fellow Democrat Bob Krueger to the seat - a job he held for just six months before Hutchison won the seat...