Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When you vote for a candidate--for any office--the bills he or she supports tend to come with the package. When the candidate is a Democrat, it's a safe bet that those programs will lean a bit to the left. Those are the rules. Voters look out for their self-interests, and for their pocketbooks. Those, too, are the rules...
...normal rules didn't seem to apply. This was the year of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, the year the media scoffed at far-left liberals like Tom Harkin and Jerry Brown, the year Bill Clinton proudly proclaimed himself a New Democrat. It was also the year George Bush (an Old Republican) failed to convey a single idea, goal, or reason for running...
Although the Vice President was never part of the Capitol Hill backslapping club, he was respected by most, and retains his power of persuasion there. One morning just as legislative director Howard Paster had got a difficult House Democrat on the line for the President, Gore walked in, took the phone and softened up the Congressman by reminding him of a fund raiser Gore had for him in 1988. Oftimes when congressional leaders call the Oval Office, Clinton uses the speakerphone and puts Gore on. In a walk-up to the first budget vote, Gore spent only five minutes...
Defying President Clinton, David Bonior, third-ranking Democrat in the House, said he would use his majority whip's office to organize opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would eliminate tariff barriers between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Democrats are already badly split on the pact...
PLAYER Rep. Tim Penny Democrat, Minn...