Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEFENSE] Contends the military has been cut excessively under Clinton. Favors a new ground-based missile shield to be built by 2003, with possible Star Wars-like space-based components...
...FOREIGN POLICY] Favors active role for the U.S. Has been critical of Bosnia policy, initially opposing Clinton's dispatching of ground troops but later voting in favor. Has blasted Clinton for foreign policy fecklessness, which he claims has emboldened Iraq, North Korea and China to behave more aggressively...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Wake up, Congress. Our policies are so misdirected, if you threw them at the ground, they would probably miss...
...liberals left on the Hill, Becerra hit the ground running as a Congressman. He was appointed to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and has pushed for a shift in federal funding for poor children that could move $59 million into his mostly Latino South Central district...
...speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...