Word: democrats
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...Tucker of Arkansas, the most prominent figure snared in the Whitewater investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "This is a major blow to Starr," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions, however, that Starr can, and probably will, appeal Woods' decision...
...April, the Republican leaders in Congress were shocked--shocked!--to learn that the fund is projected to run out of money in 2002, just seven years from now. This reaction was odd. The trustees issue a report every year, and never before has any leading politician, Republican or Democrat, expressed so much panic. This year's report actually showed an improvement over last year's, which projected that the trust fund would go bust in 2001. Yet House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans suddenly declared with one voice that immediate steps were necessary to "save Medicare...
...least 15 years, the lonely battle against racism in adoption has been waged mainly by this organization. We battle those who oppose whites adopting blacks as well as others who would stop all transracial, trans ethnic and transnational adoption. We have been aided by former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a Democrat from Ohio, who courageously and tirelessly fought for passage of the Multiethnic Placement Act. But the Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidelines that prove it has little interest in enforcing the spirit of that law. This has led Metzenbaum, our group and others across the political...
That instinct for opportunity put him in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and it may have been at work again last week. The New Jersey Democrat announced that he will retire at the end of next year from the Senate, where he has spent a third of his 52 years, and that he is weighing the idea of making a bid for the White House as an independent candidate. That alone would have been enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying...
...days in jail, the threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...