Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House is more concerned about bringing along conservative Democrats like Georgia's Sam Nunn and David Boren of Oklahoma, who have made it clear that even a hint of employer mandates could be too much. "To have any chance," Boren insists, "we must knock out the triggered mandate." The fate of Mitchell's plan may lie in the hands of a dozen or so Senators in both parties, including Boren, Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republicans John Chafee of Rhode Island and Missouri's John Danforth...
...signed on as a partner in the project, along with European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies. NASA claims the collaboration with Russia will save the U.S. $2 billion, but a study by the General Accounting Office says it will actually increase the cost by that amount. Opponents, notably Arkansas Democrat Dale Bumpers, have called the space station a "turkey" because of its huge overall expense -- about $30 billion...
...mail holdups could be illegal and plan to investigate the postal system. The House subcommittee on postal operations has summoned Runyon to testify at a hearing about the problems this week. The General Accounting Office plans an investigation of service snafus. "Our Postal Service is a disaster," says Missouri Democrat William Clay, chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. "And it is as disheartening nationwide as it is in Washington...
Although Woolsey applauded last week's decision by the House to keep the annual intelligence bill formally secret, the 27-vote margin of victory was far less than last year's 95-vote edge. "In the modern world," says Kansas Democrat Dan Glickman, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, "they have to prove and justify their budget much more than in the past." Neither Glickman nor Representative Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months...
...hearings, committee members and staffers seemed to be as worked up over who might be leaking such bits of information as they were over the actual tidbits. D'Amato and Senate Banking Committee chairman Donald Riegle, a Michigan Democrat, both called for an ethics committee inquiry into the leaks, which is not the sort of thing that resonates loudly outside the Beltway. The hearings themselves, though, if nothing else, should serve as a kind of training camp in which both sides warm up and test themes to use in the eventual main event: the post-Fiske probe into just what...