Word: democrats
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Even if social-policy thinkers had bigger and better ideas of what government might do, the fiscally conservative G.O.P. majorities in Congress and in many statehouses around the country don't want to hear them. "No programs are going to happen," says California Representative Maxine Waters, a Democrat whose district is in South Central Los Angeles. Jack Kemp, who served as HUD Secretary under George Bush, says, "I don't see a single thing coming out of Congress that is specifically targeted to our No. 1 issue, which is creating more jobs and opportunities and access to capital and credit...
Never mind that his crusade had cost some fatally loyal Democrats their job. "I can't tell you what was on the President's mind," says Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, the freshman Democrat who became notorious back home for casting the deciding vote and lost her seat as a result. "The only thing I can tell you is what he said to me on the night of the vote, and that was that without this, the country would have come to a screeching halt." And never mind that Clinton had actually proposed even more spending in his 1993 "stimulus package...
...visceral issues as land and water. The angry rebels range from ranchers fed up with bureaucrats' telling them when and where to graze their cattle to developers denied crucial water rights. "We're talking about things that go right down to the heart," says Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson, a Democrat and chairman of the Western Governors' Association. Although a moderate, he confesses that he too gets fed up with federally mandated burdens like those imposed by the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, which requires even struggling communities to spend heavily to upgrade their water systems. "When...
...Democrats lost their most powerful voice on national defense matters, as well as a respected member of their once formidable but now rapidly shrinking Southern delegation. Saying he lacks the "zest and enthusiasm" for a fifth term, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia announced he would step down at the end of next year--the eighth Senate Democrat to call it quits and bow out of next year's elections...
Young, black and liberal Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) will face millionaire Democrat-turned-Republican state Senator Mike Foster, 65, in a race that will determine the next governor of Louisiana. "In many ways this race is a quintessential example of Southern politics today," reports TIME's Adam Cohen. "The Democratic Party is becoming increasingly black, while moderate and conservative white democrats run to the Republicans. The challenge for the Democratic Party is to hold on to its strong black base without losing those white Democrats. They haven't been very successful so far. And Fields is a decided underdog...