Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California on Thursday. Compare to Bill Clinton on the same day - "I will not sign a bill that turns its back on these hard-working families" - and you can certainly see why GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay is less than pleased. "It's obvious," DeLay snapped after a gleeful Democrat read him Bush?s comments in the middle of negotiations over that very issue, "the governor's got a lot to learn about Congress...
...Harvard College Democrats held their introductory meeting last night in Ticknor Lounge, they presented a unified front aimed at keeping a Democrat in the White House after the 2000 elections...
Whether that Democrat will be former senator Bill Bradley or Vice President Al Gore '69 is far from decided, and student groups supporting each candidate are currently developing as they try to make their mark on Harvard's campus and several highly contested primaries...
...scope of patients? rights, watch for newly disenfranchised physicians to join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold of each on the other has never been more evident than it is today. Not so many years ago, money-hungry doctors were seen as plundering American wallets, and Democrat-friendly HMOs were perceived...
...bill last week that would essentially outlaw assisted suicides. The so-called Pain Relief Promotion Act sounds hilariously uncontroversial, but in fact it would send doctors to jail for life for prescribing controlled substances with the intent of hastening death. The bill now goes to the entire House. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has promised a filibuster in the Senate; the President has taken no stand...