Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican leadership, which currently controlls Congress, has consistently thrown roadblocks in the path of campaign finance reform. Last year, the Shays-Meehan bill passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by a Republican filibuster. Yet the House debate has finally arrived, and the Senate is scheduled to consider its version, sponsored by Sens. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell D. Feingold (D-Wisc.) later this fall. After so much talk and so many failed promises, it is high time that Congress reject the potential for corruption in the current system and cast a vote for reform...
...used to be you had to be a Roman emperor to change the calendar. Now all it takes is a Senate seat. Locked in a game of fiscal chicken with Bill Clinton, Republican Senate leaders are embracing a time-warping plan to make this year?s budgetary ends meet: They?re adding a 13th month to the upcoming fiscal year. "We all know we engage in a lot of smoke and mirrors," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) told the Washington Post on Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question...
...name were Edward Moore, [his] candidacy would be a joke." In this season of George W. Bush, a pleasant enough Governor of modest achievement, one is forced to ask, "If his name were George Walker, would he be a presidential candidate, let alone the runaway front runner for the Republican nomination...
...with zest in 1776. But it cannot so easily abolish the dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races for election year 2000. The top two Republican candidates are the son of a former President and the wife of the party's last presidential candidate (joined at the top by the son of a famous plutocrat...
...Republican and Democratic strategists, an independent Buchanan campaign remains something of an X factor. As a social conservative, Buchanan could siphon off twice as many votes from a Republican candidate than from a Democrat, according to a poll conducted by GOP consultant Frank Luntz. Republicans are painfully aware of this threat, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper. ?As Jay [Carney, TIME's Washington correspondent] discovered, the Bush people have launched a charm offensive to keep Buchanan from bolting,? says Cooper. But loyal Dems shouldn?t mail their Buchanan campaign contributions just yet, Democratic strategist James Carville told TIME...