Word: passing
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...Kennedy’s Senate tenure, the third-longest in U.S. history, has been definitively liberal, but Kennedy also developed a reputation for making compromises to pass landmark, bipartisan legislation. For years, Kennedy was ahead of the curve on pressing political issues, and many of his great legislative causes—such as immigration reform or health care reform—continue to be relevant today...
...presidential campaign in the western states. He later won a special election to take his brother’s former Massachusetts Senate seat in 1962 when he turned the minimum age of 30. Great Society reforms occupied much of the young Senator’s agenda. Kennedy helped pass the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended the quota system favoring Europeans and opened the doors to immigration for millions of Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans...
...Democratic leader under Reagan, Kennedy helped pass sanctions against apartheid South Africa as an override to Reagan’s veto, and clashed openly with Reagan over weapons development and support for the Contras. Kennedy also grew to be a staunch supporter of gay and women’s rights, and his opposition to Reagan’s Supreme Court candidate Robert Bork, a constitutional originalist who hoped to overturn Roe v. Wade, is credited with preventing Bork’s nomination. On the Senate floor, Kennedy furiously alleged that “Bork’s America...
...example, Epstein points to Zimbabwe, where donor groups tried to pass out female condoms, and women simply removed the rings and used them as bracelets. "I am a skeptic about whether they will have even a minuscule effect on the epidemic in Africa," she says...
...expected to get about 100 - just one-third of what it had before Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved parliament in July and called the Aug. 30 election. If the DPJ lands more than 321 seats, it will have the two-thirds majority it needs to unilaterally pass bills rejected by the upper house...