Word: democratizing
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Many of her friends believe the root of her interest in American politics, Democrat division, was a desire to keep her husband active. Certainly that was a factor, but her determination to be near great men and her instinct for politics were lifelong (when she was a child, seven members of her family were in Parliament). Drawing on decades of observation of government workings and business deals, she began the task of helping rebuild the party after it lost control of the Senate...
...Lautenberg's case, his fellow New Jersey senator, Bill Bradley, nearly lost his re-election campaign because fellow Democrat Gov. Jim Florio raised state taxes...
...politics of immigration has created strange alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language...
Clinton Administration officials fear the potential exists for immigration to become a hot national issue. They perked up their ears when Louisiana Democrat John Breaux, a key figure in Senate budget deliberations, told a home-state audience that the U.S. could save $8 billion a year by cutting social services to illegal immigrants and later repeated the thought, though not the number, on national TV. "When a savvy politician like Breaux does that, it tells you something," says a White House aide. There is some thought that anti-immigrant sentiment is helping Ross Perot to drum up opposition...
That was yet another in a series of clipped pronouncements the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has made in public and private that have blown large holes in the listing hulk of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's economic package. Moynihan is not a conventional party leader. The Hill's loyal opposition has whispered that he is "chairman by fluke." Even Democrats were stunned when former committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen accepted the job as Secretary of the Treasury, which moved Moynihan to the mountaintop, an unproven leader. In fact, Moynihan is the Senate's most eccentric, brilliant and fearless purveyor...