Word: democrats
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...abortion-related questions. And at least five of the most ardent of the newly elected abortion foes are women, blurring the battle lines of gender for the first time. "Their agenda is very clear. First, Newt Gingrich's hundred days; now, it's Pat Robertson's hundred days," said Democrat Nita Lowey of New York, who heads the House women's caucus. "We don't have the votes to stop any of this in the House...
...County, seem ready to rebel. Within days of Reed's announcement, three major investment services warned potential buyers of L.A. County's bond issues that its credit rating was being reviewed or downgraded, an adjustment that could signal the start of a tailspin. Zev Yaroslavsky, a fiscally hard-nosed Democrat who is the swing vote on the five-person County Board of Supervisors, which must rule on Reed's proposal, says, "The Latino community may feel these cuts are racial, but it's not racial, it's economic. It's about whether the entire county shuts down next year...
...real healing going on," said Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, who also resigned from the committee. Tauzin has given Democrats until December to shape up--or he will jump just in time to run for the Senate. Mike Parker of Mississippi isn't expected to wait that long. When asked if he is switching parties, he says, "I have no plans to switch--today." More telling is the way he describes himself: "a recovering Democrat...
Something about the combination of sex and computers, however, seems to make otherwise worldly-wise adults a little crazy. How else to explain the uproar surrounding the discovery by a U.S. Senator--Nebraska Democrat James Exon--that pornographic pictures can be downloaded from the Internet and displayed on a home computer? This, as any computer-savvy undergrad can testify, is old news. Yet suddenly the press is on alert, parents and teachers are up in arms, and lawmakers in Washington are rushing to ban the smut from cyberspace with new legislation--sometimes with little regard to either its effectiveness...
...right of adults to communicate with each other," he told a caller on a cable-TV show. It was a key defection, because Gingrich will preside over the computer-decency debate when it moves to the House in July. Meanwhile, two U.S. Representatives, Republican Christopher Cox of California and Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon, were putting together an anti-Exon amendment that would bar federal regulation of the Internet and help parents find ways to block material they found objectionable...