Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perot organization is mainly a one-man band. Perot's cabinet isn't big enough to fill a kitchen. Russell Verney is the all-around organizer, spinmeister, and aide-de-camp. A former air-traffic controller who ran for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire, he has brought some order to the Perot operation where others have failed. Clay Mulford, Perot's son-in-law, a big-time corporate lawyer, is the resident expert on arcane election and finance issues. Perot has a part-time pollster in Gordon Black, who provides memos on message and tactics but typically gets...
...issues the Republican contender had been counting on to gain traction in the campaign. Political strategists figured a veto might cost the President about five points in the polls, but Clinton could endure that with plenty to spare. A veto, however, would have repudiated the entire moderate, New Democrat stance--champion of family values, balanced budgets, more cops on the streets--that Clinton had been cultivating so assiduously since the rout of the Democrats in the 1994 elections. And, of course, there was that matter of his 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know...
...once. Why? Fear. A Washington adage says members of Congress care about only three things: getting re-elected, getting re-elected and getting re-elected. When Republicans returned from their July 4 recess, a privately distributed poll by G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin showed that voters would prefer a Democrat to a Republican as their representative by 5 percentage points. In 1994 it took only a 2-point advantage the other way round for Republicans to win control of the House and the Senate...
WASHINGTON: The last time an incumbent Democrat sat in the White House and Republicans ruled Capitol Hill, Harry Truman won narrow re-election by ravaging a "Do-Nothing Congress" from the porch of his campaign train. That historical lesson may be on the minds of Congressional Republicans this year: After more than a year and a half most remembered for interminable budget disputes and seemingly endless ethics investigations, Congress in the last week has embarked on an impressive flurry of activity. The Senate today passed a major overhaul of welfare by a 78-21 vote, following Thursday's action...
...from agencies dealing in international relations, trade, census matters and national security. Another provision concedes that government workers should be allowed to speak foreign languages in order to save the lives of citizens during public health or safety emergencies. Although Speaker Gingrich declared that becoming American means learning English, Democrats railed against the bill. "This is mean-spirited. I don't care how you camouflage it," said Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza. "This bill is making us the laughing stock of the world. It's ridiculous. It's absurd." Terence Nelan