Word: democratizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found it quite interesting, however, that while Crimson reporter Ivana Katic contacted both the Harvard College Democrats and Republicans, she made no effort to contact the Harvard College Greens for commentary on the debate. Unlike the members of the Harvard Democrat and Republican clubs whom Katic contacted, members of the Greens were not only co-sponsors of the KSG event but were, in fact, present at the debate and would certainly have had more to add to Katic’s analysis of the debate itself than the tired comments made by Andy Frank of the Democrats and Truesdell...
...woman at McDonald’s is not voting,” Rosenfeld reports, and the room reacts with dismay. The last few months have been spent trying to motivate every last New Hampshire resident of age to vote today, to vote Democrat and to vote Edwards. Any stay-at-home voter is a setback, it seems...
...with drug companies to get better prices, a practice the Federal Government employs routinely in negotiations with other contractors, such as defense suppliers. "We could have used Medicare's market power to negotiate lower prices for the medicines the program will be buying," said Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat, last fall before he voted against the final version of the bill. "Instead, this compromise agreement actually prohibits this commonsense approach to cost containment...
...that would affect the lawmakers themselves. Last summer a provision was inserted into the Senate Medicare bill that would have slashed the prescription-drug coverage for lawmakers to whatever level they eventually gave to Medicare recipients. Written into the pending legislation by freshman Senator Mark Dayton, a Minnesota Democrat, the provision drew the support of all but seven senators. The public-spirited act of self-denial was easier to make because many Senators had been assured privately that the provision would be secretly stripped from the bill before it went to conference. It was indeed...
...potent lobby. It maintains more than 600 lobbyists--more than one for every member of Congress. It spent $435 million to influence Washington from 1996 to 2003 and handed out $57.9 million in contributions from 1991 to 2002, according to Common Cause. Says Representative Pete Stark, a California Democrat who has waged a decade-long war for lower Medicare drug prices, a move that government auditors say could save taxpayers nearly $1 billion a year: "These guys are awfully good. I only wish they were on the right side of the issues. They don't care about curing people. They...