Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan would require employers to pay about 80% of the cost of health insurance for their workers. This would help Clinton extend coverage to 35 million uninsured Americans without raising taxes on the 85% who already have insurance. "The mandate is vital," says Senator Jay Rockefeller, the West Virginia Democrat and main Clinton-plan backer in the Senate. "You don't get to universal coverage without it," he adds...
Under criminal investigation for possible financial irregularities, Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski began exploring a plea-bargain agreement with federal prosecutors. The Illinois Democrat, who claims he is innocent, wants to avoid indictment on felony charges and the possibility of prison, if he is convicted. Rostenkowski is now said to believe his legal problems will force him to relinquish his powerful chairmanship, whether a deal can be reached or not. That is terrible news for Democrats. Without Rostenkowski at the helm, they fear, the President's health reforms could sink in Congress...
...Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted a fight. Though minority leader Robert Dole told the President privately that Babbitt could still be confirmed, probably by a vote of 80 to 20, the White House remained concerned about the possibility of a revolt spreading among Senate Democrats from Western states. The battle over land-use fees last year had grown so fractious that at one point a Senate Democrat told the White House it could never count on his vote again. Asked why, the Senator replied, "I'll give you three reasons: Babbitt, Babbitt and Babbitt...
...pioneer among the new pragmatists is Philadelphia mayor Edward Rendell, 50, a moderate Democrat. "No more whining that we don't get enough money from state capitals and from Washington," says the former prosecutor. "No more looking for the cavalry to bail us out." When he took the reins in 1992, Philadelphia carried a $200 million deficit and municipal bonds with junk- level ratings. Its citizenry, meanwhile, was financially anemic from 19 tax increases in 11 years. Fifteen months later, Rendell had engineered the city's first surplus since 1987 without a tax boost...
...successful fight to ratify the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Clinton alienated some to the Democratic party's biggest supporters by going head to head against the labor unions. The AFL-CIO donated $1 million to the election coffers of the Democratic National Party and threatened to withhold support to any Democrat, including the President, who supported the NAFTA treaty...