Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last, all the details are on paper. To be exact, on 1,342 pages of paper that President Clinton hand-carried to Capitol Hill. Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, said the next day that he had "stayed up to 4 a.m. but couldn't finish getting through" the proposed Health Security Act he had agreed to co-sponsor. Clinton himself rather plaintively told a Baltimore audience that "my brain aches" from studying the details of his own plan...
There are some signs, however, that bipartisan moderates may come together around some variation of a House bill introduced by Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, and Fred Grandy, an Iowa Republican. Cooper describes his bill as "Clinton Lite": less costly, less mandatory, less bureaucratic. Clintonites reply that it also would not cover all of the 37 million people now uninsured. Nonetheless, staff members for Cooper and Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, have begun negotiations with aides to Dole and Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island to see whether they can blend their efforts into a single, bipartisan, both...
Republican George Allen handily won theVirginia governor's race yesterday, ending 12years of Democratic rule in Richmond. Allen'svictory in Virginia over Democrat Mary Sue Terrygave the GOP the night's first major trophy. With97 percent of the vote counted, Allen wascomfortably ahead with 58 percent to Terry's 41percent...
...Texas. With $2 billion already spent and the project 20% complete, the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument, a particle accelerator designed to probe the innermost secrets of the universe, was canceled last week by a 282-to-143 vote in the House of Representatives. Said Ohio Democrat Eric Fingerhut: "This was a project that we couldn't afford. We need to take every opportunity to reduce our deficit...
...York's last election, the main issue was the racial strife that threatened to tear the city apart. Dinkins, a black liberal Democrat who promoted himself as the right man to soothe those tensions, eked out a victory over his white Republican rival to become the city's first African American chief executive. Race relations in the Big Apple haven't improved much since then. But New Yorkers now express more concern about crime, jobs, affordable housing and effective schools...