Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the proceedings, two-thirds of the members didn't even bother to show up to listen to their colleagues, to the point that Democrat David Obey urged the Speaker to tell members that "whatever they're doing, they ought to drop it and get their tails in here." At the outset, the proceedings were confined to two hours, which produced the spectacle of one lawmaker after another finding that he didn't have time to serve up a sound bite, much less an idea. Some complained that they had spent more time naming post offices last week...
...committed by concealing his dalliance with Lewinsky to the abuses of government perpetrated by Richard Nixon. "This isn't about sexual misconduct any more than Watergate was about a third-rate burglary," proclaimed Hyde, who urged members to listen to that still, small voice whispering "duty, duty, duty." The Democrats took the opposite tack, warning of the horrors ahead. "Do we really want two more years of Monica Lewinsky?" Democrat David Bonior bellowed from the well of the House. "Two more years of Linda Tripp...
Frank is also the only openly gay Democrat in the House of Representatives, and his remarks came in the midst of a national outcry over Shepard's death...
...second ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Frank plays a large role in the current impeachment proceedings...
...lifelong loyalties is to the Democratic Party, and as a western Democrat, I am naturally concerned that the West is now the most Republican region in the country. No small part of the blame for that can be attributed to the Democratic Party's thorough nationalism. This continent's mountain region has always felt itself colonized by the national government. That it still feels that alienation is reflected in the fact that the Republican Party, always willing to trash Big Government, now dominates every level of government in the interior West. As a Democrat, I think the time has come...