Word: democratizing
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DIED. JOHN STENNIS, 93, U.S. Senator; in Jackson, Mississippi. During his 41-year run in the upper chamber, Stennis, a Democrat from Mississippi, was known as "the conscience of the Senate" thanks to his respect for its traditions as well as his tutelage of younger members. In the outside world, he was often more admired for his personal tenacity-surviving a 1973 mugging and 1984 cancer surgery-than for his segregationist voting record...
Perhaps a pro-abortion plank might help Specter against a pro-abortion Democrat in a general election. But it certainly won't help him secure the Republican nomination, especially since conservative forces play a key role in the process. Fortunately for Republican solidarity, Specter's candidacy will never see the light...
...matter what side we are on, I suggest we should engage in a dialogue to define public policy. We must raise the level of public dialogue and public policy," said Willie Brown, the Democrat who has served as California's speaker for a record 15 consecutive years...
Even one of the bill's sponsors in the Senate, Democrat Joe Biden of Delaware, disavowed the evidence provision, calling it "Kafkaesque." But by last week Biden was predicting that compromise language would be worked out. Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat who sponsored the bill in the House, insists that the summary hearings would apply to a "very limited number of cases...
...Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler today retracted statements that New York Gov.George Pataki, the rookie Republican who bested Mario Cuomoin November, was a "quasi-governor," or -- as Fowler then elaborated -- "half-assed." The apology for his remarks Tuesday came after New York's senior Democrat, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, took the Senate floor hours later to offer his own apology for Fowler's "inexcusable conduct." Fowler made the remarks while criticizing Pataki for his proposed "tax cuts to the rich...