Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that moment, Chafee could have answered "not much." He and six other members of a self-styled "rump" group of moderate Democrats and Republicans had little more than a five-paragraph outline of a proposal. By week's end the group had lost one supporter but had forged ahead, led by Chafee and Louisiana Democrat John Breaux, and presented a 30-page draft plan to Moynihan. A 100- page draft was promised for this week...
Clustered around a table in a cramped second-floor room in the Capitol, the seven Senators -- three Republicans and four Democrats -- set out to piece together a proposal that would get as close to the President's commitment to guarantee insurance coverage for all Americans and still garner enough votes to pass through the committee and onto the Senate floor. After their staffs labored most of last Thursday night and sorted through disagreements that several times threatened to torpedo the process, the group emerged Friday with only New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley expressing some displeasure with the results. Relying...
...Oklahoma Democrat David Boren declared himself "enthusiastic" about his group's handiwork, adding that "it has a chance to become law." And his colleague David Durenberger, a Republican who, like Boren, is not running for re-election, said the proposal "clearly provides the best opportunity in my 16 years ((in the Senate)) to do genuine health reform...
Among the many risks in this strategy is that Mitchell still has nowhere near 51 votes. If the majority leader tries to muscle a partisan bill through, it would take just six more Democrats to join Boren's boycott to hand Clinton a defeat. In fact, many of the swing-vote Democrats the White House considers crucial to this strategy told Time last week that it would end in failure. Several White House officials privately concede that a deal coming out of the Finance Committee is essential, at least to keeping reform from stalling completely. And some White House aides...
...state convention two years ago, the California G.O.P. tore itself apart over whether to adopt a strict antiabortion plank. The conservatives won, but in the November election G.O.P. candidates were mowed down by the voters. This year, to avoid hobbling Governor Pete Wilson in his race against Democrat Kathleen Brown, Christians agreed to a softer abortion platform. Religious conservatives are looking for centrists to meet them halfway by supporting candidates like North and Quist, even if they appear to be potential losers in the general election. "If you're only there for the other party when the going is easy...