Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers of Michigan joined Arab-American and civil rights group in attacking the Clinton Administration's tough anti-terrorism bill as unconstitutional.Acting CIA DirectorWilliam Studeman and other Administration officials countered that the legislation is necessary because Americans have become potential targets of international terrorism, such as the 1993World Trade Center bombing. The bill would expand wiretapping authority, ban fundraising by terrorist groups and speed deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism. "Are we going to allow the government to deport aliens convicted of no crime, based on secret information?" asked Conyers. Sponsor Charles Schumer...
...amendment was approved, but not before Democrats found their voice. Hour after hour they railed as programs they had erected over decades were demolished overnight. They also found in their wardrobe the accessory of choice: brightly colored Save the Children ties and scarves, which turned up around the weathered necks of such old Democratic bulls as Sam Gibbons and John Dingell. When the debate grew particularly rowdy, the normally soft-spoken Gibbons shouted at the Republicans, "You all sit down and shut up." Later, facing a chorus of boos, Gibbons added, "Boo if you want to. Make asses of yourselves...
...disappeared in the Guatemalan jungle in March 1992. Although U.S. officials told her several times they believed Bamaca was dead, they gave her no definitive answers; they insist they have none. Nor did they mention any possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January the CIA had sent the State Department and White House a report containing an allegation that Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, once a paid CIA asset, may have played a role...
...Brandy, babe. Hello law-and-order on the electronic frontier. "In its simplest form, we are taking the antismut and antipornography laws that have long been in place with the telephone and the mails, and applying them to the information superhighway," says Senator Jim Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who sponsored the decency act. "I want to make the information superhighway as safe as possible for kids...
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey today became the first Democrat to threaten a 1996challenge to President Clinton. Casey, who just finished two terms as governor, established an exploratory committee to raise funds for a campaign. He is expected to decide whether to run by May. Casey, who opposes abortion rights, has complained that the Clinton Administration is filled with "left-wing ideologues." He had a heart and liver transplant in 1993. If he does run, he'll be running uphill.TIME Washington correspondent Michael Duffysays Clinton's approval rating among Democrats has dramatically improved this year, especially in early primary states...