Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, leader of the successful opposition to both Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, implicitly contrasted Blackmun to Carswell, who was criticized for insensitivity toward racial issues. Though Blackmun has been labeled a conservative, the lib eral Bayh said: "There is every indication that Judge Blackmun is aware of the crucial questions of civil rights and human rights facing our nation - and is equipped to deal with them with sensitivity, understanding and intelligence...
GRIFFITHS BILL. Introduced in the House by Democrat Martha Griffiths of Michigan, a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Endorsed by the A.F.L.-C.l.O., it would cover unlimited hospitalization, physicians' services including surgery, preventive care and physical checkups, required nursing-home care, rehabilitation services, dental care for all under 16, eye care and allowances for eyeglasses and prescription drugs. It retains a coinsurance feature, mainly to cut down overuse: the patient would pay $2 toward the cost of all visits to the doctor's or dentist's office after the first, which would be free...
...issue has already been injected into this year's elections by Democrat Theodore C. Sorensen, campaigning for the U.S. Senate from New York, who last week announced his own plan for "universal health insurance." Apart from such standpatters as the A.M.A. and its arch-conservative Republican allies, there is a growing consensus that some national insurance blanket must be thrown over the ailing body of health care...
...Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs introduced his own formal impeachment resolution. As a result, the Judiciary Committee set up a special subcommittee to look into the Douglas case. Meanwhile, Douglas was under pressure from a delegation of friends who were upset because his lofty self-confidence was keeping him from answering his critics In a lengthy private meeting, says former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford who participated, "we told Bill to get off his duff." The 71-year-old Justice relented and duly offered complete access to his court records, correspondence files financial matters, or otherwise...
...vote (229 to 105) was far closer than expected. But California Democrat George Miller, the science committee chairman, apparently reflected majority sentiment when he said: "The sympathies and interest generated by this flight, both in this country and around the world, cannot be sold down the river...