Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee, was a double whammy. In a short time he has come to symbolize both Congress's lingering tawdriness and its desperate need for a dealmaker to keep the place functioning. "Most people think members of Congress -- all members of | Congress -- have their hands in the till," worries Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "This simply confirms it for them...
Clinton is hoping that Rostenkowski was not as crucial to the passage of health-care reform as he once supposed. Though he can regain his chairmanship if acquitted, Rostenkowski was compelled by Democratic caucus rules to hand over the post to the committee's ranking Democrat, Florida Representative Sam Gibbons, who has shown no special gift for horse trading. So the Administration is expecting its health-care point man to be majority leader Richard Gephardt. But like the rest of the House leadership, Gephardt is also more liberal than the crucial centrists whose support Clinton needs on health care...
...Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons eased into the plum job of House Ways and Means Committee chair after ex-chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted. But his hold on the gavel may be tenuous. The buzz among Democrats is that a challenge to Gibbons will be mounted in January if he fails to persuade the committee to back a version of Clinton's health-care bill before July 4 or is unable to muster credible influence when and if such a bill comes up in the full House...
...taxes" Democrat, Roosevelt faults Weld for an apathetic approach to Massachusetts job creation, citing the state's 350,000 lost jobs as evidence of ineffective leadership...
Less than a month ago, six Republicans--a doctor, a talk-show host, a radio advertising sales manager and three millionaires--were set to challenge one Democrat, a 32-year incumbent with the most famous last name in Massachusetts, for the U.S. Senate...