Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Initially, the once haughty Democrats were relegated to bit parts in the first-100-days extravaganza that opened Gingrich's Congress. But their shared humiliation also offered a chance to find the sort of cohesiveness that they had often marveled at in the Republicans. Early on, Gephardt fashioned the test that would force them to confront all their old ideological demons: a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P. welfare-reform bill. Day after day, they argued in Gephardt's office. Hispanic members threatened to walk out over provisions cutting off benefits to legal immigrants; liberals hated the idea of putting time...
...agenda," warns Ohio's John Boehner. Even now, some are chafing, making it clear that they see Gephardt's Families First outline as a starting point, not a goal. "Gephardt never has and never would tell me what to do in my committee," Michigan's John Conyers, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Wall Street Journal last month...
...invitation on file." Clinton and top aides chatted with F.O.P. leaders in the White House Sept. 9 for 45 minutes--taking 15 minutes away from the time allotted to the next visitor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Big surprise! The F.O.P. gave Clinton its first-ever endorsement of a Democrat...
...final days of the campaign. Millner is also keeping up a tireless schedule of personal appearances--he has traveled more than 46,000 miles across the state since January. And his party affiliation may help: the Republican vote has been growing rapidly in Georgia, and no Southern Democrat has won an open Senate seat since 1988. Still, if the polls are to be believed, Cleland could end the Democrats' losing streak. His much heralded biography would then have a new chapter, "The Senate Years...
...coming up with Spiro Agnew. In Nixon's calculus, Agnew was a safe-bet border-state novice with no heavy baggage and a Greek-immigrant father, which would help with the ethnic vote. He had been known as a Republican moderate, based on his campaign for Governor against a Democrat who ran on what was then a racially inflammatory slogan: "Your home is your castle." But Agnew could also talk tough. The press said, "Spiro...