Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, polls show Weld winning by a two-to-one margin over any of his potential opponents...
...this. Going into Thursday's showdown on crime, Democratic head counters thought they had a margin of one or two votes. Instead, nearly a fourth of all House Democrats balked. Most of them were rural lawmakers susceptible to the National Rifle Association, which opposed the bill's ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons and related models. Because the measure would also establish 50 new offenses punishable by the death penalty, which falls disproportionately on black defendants, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the bill...
...dissident Democrats provided the killer margin to an all-but-solid G.O.P. opposition, which in recent weeks had taken to denouncing the bill as a pork-barrel measure that included too many social-work incentives for activities such as midnight basketball and self-esteem counseling for inner- city kids. After it was voted down, Republican Gerald Solomon of New York danced on the grave. "This is a welfare bill with a few good things to cover...
...down a preliminary procedure in a 225-210 vote. The procedure, outlining the rules for debate, needed to pass the House before the crime bill could be introduced. Clinton said the defeat was "orchestrated by the National Rifle Association" and put the safety of Americans in jeopardy. The wide margin of loss shocked Washington insiders, says TIME Washington correspondent, Laurence I. Barrett. "It was expected to be two votes either way," says Barrett. So, the crime bill's dead, right? Not quite, says Barrett. "What will probably happen is that they will go back to a conference committee . . . make some...
Although Woolsey applauded last week's decision by the House to keep the annual intelligence bill formally secret, the 27-vote margin of victory was far less than last year's 95-vote edge. "In the modern world," says Kansas Democrat Dan Glickman, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, "they have to prove and justify their budget much more than in the past." Neither Glickman nor Representative Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months...