Word: democratics
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Administration officials whisper that Director James Woolsey's days are numbered; some are beginning to float the names of possible successors. A joint Congress-White House commission will examine what should be done with the CIA. While it is unlikely to follow New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan's not altogether facetious suggestion that the CIA be abolished, the commission might recommend slashing the agency's $3 billion budget and 20,000- person staff and giving some of its intelligence-gathering functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or State Department while turning over the running of many...
...wasn't supposed to be like this. The Democrats who rule both houses of Congress had blamed Washington's stasis on George Bush and Ronald Reagan and promised to "end the gridlock" if only voters would send a Democrat to the White House. And, to be sure, President Clinton and Congress have reduced the budget deficit, expanded trade with Mexico and Canada and passed a big anticrime bill. But as his approval ratings have dived into the low 40s, the President and his party's leaders have failed to win sufficient support among Democrats in Congress to pass such major...
HEALTH CARE: Senate Finance Committee chairman Pat Moynihan last week launched a final bid to pass an incremental health-reform bill. But most lawmakers pitied the New York Democrat for trying CPR on a corpse. Even so temperate a Republican as Richard Lugar of Indiana observed that among his constituents, "people have become so afraid of what health-care reform might do to them that they're relieved nothing is getting through this year...
More centrist Clinton advisers hope that a more Republican Congress will allow the President to shift toward the political center, recapturing the New Democrat themes that helped elect him in 1992 and will serve him well in 1996. But these sources sound more wishful than confident. And there are complications, including the risk of angering Democrats on the left and inspiring someone like Jesse Jackson to run as an independent and divert votes from Clinton. "Many people are alienated and are finding the parties indistinguishable on matters that are vital," Jackson warned in an interview with TIME. "That...
...from the company. (Then again, part-timers usually don't.) Last week Kennedy even introduced religion into the race, demanding to know if Romney, a member of the Mormon Church, supported church policies that until 1978 excluded black men from serving as priests. Romney quickly reminded voters how the Democrat's brother had to fend off questions about his Catholicism during his run for the presidency...