Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most important is NAFTA's symbolic value. Diplomatically, the vote is being viewed as a severe test of whether the U.S. will maintain a policy of active engagement in the world or take an inward-looking, protectionist turn. Politically, Clinton's leadership is on trial. A majority of House Democrats, heavily dependent on labor support for election, are against NAFTA. Clinton has the unenviable, but vital challenge of proving that he is enough of a New Democrat to break free of union domination, and that he can bring enough Democrats along with him and forge a strong bipartisan coalition...
What a marvelous institution is this Congress of ours. There is a free-trade agreement up for approval, and almost everyone knows it's a good thing. All six living Presidents, Republican and Democrat, have come out strongly in favor of it. When was the last time that happened on anything? So, too, all 17 living American Nobel-prizewinning economists. And -- here's what's great -- even most of the members of Congress planning to vote against it are, privately, in favor...
Take one fine young Democrat to whose campaigns I have always been pleased to contribute. She's planning to vote against NAFTA. She feels bad about this, she will tell you privately, but she's come under a lot of pressure from her constituents, and from labor unions in particular, so she feels her re- election prospects are better if she votes no. The latest poll shows a majority of her constituents are against NAFTA, and it's certainly not her place to speak up and educate them. That's what leaders are supposed to do, not Congresspersons...
...information pointing to possible misconduct unrelated to the current inquiry, the committee asked to see the remaining 3,200 pages. Packwood balked, charging an infringement of his right to privacy. The committee responded with a subpoena. Last week in a five-page statement, ethics committee chairman Richard Bryan, a Democrat from Nevada, asserted that information seen by the committee counsel "raised questions about possible violations of one or more laws, including criminal laws...
Congress was just days away from its August vote on his deficit-reduction package and Bill Clinton, still a few votes shy of victory, was working the phones, pleading with wavering members of the House. When he put in his call to Representative Timothy Penny, a Minnesota Democrat who wanted deeper cuts than the White House plan of $496 billion over five years, Clinton got right to the point. Not only would he propose more reductions in the fall, the President promised, but he would welcome proposals from Congress for further cuts. "This is just the first step," Clinton assured...