Word: democratizing
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Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat who consults closely with the White House on health care, said he was getting an ominously fuzzy message. "If I'm getting any signals at all," he said, "it is in the direction of folding up the tent" for this year. In Congress, he observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer...
Critics of incremental reform explain that health care contrasts sharply with most legislative issues because it does not easily submit to the go-slow, split-the-difference culture of Congress. Senator Patty Murray, the Washington State Democrat, compares the process to "putting a 10-m.p.h. speed limit on ambulances -- it's costly, and it's dangerous...
Very simple economics: "Buy American." For all the arguments about whether Bill Clinton is a New Democrat or an old one, when it comes to pushing U.S. business interests abroad, no recent President has demonstrated Clinton's willingness to roll up his sleeves and dive into the sometimes grubby details of international dealmaking, or "national export policy," as it is styled by the Administration...
This disagreement on sanctions reflects a deeper difference about U.S. support for fledging democracies. Cheney and Baker both describe Aristide as "a leftist," but Baker insists that the exiled leader's politics are immaterial. Those like Cheney "who urge walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen...
...Senate thinks it will be stillborn. The "mainstream coalition" led by Sen. John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public fears "we're going to cook...