Word: republican
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Faculty notables on the list span the political spectrum, including Institute of Politics Director Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, to Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy Mary Jo Bane, an adviser in the Clinton administration who resigned after the 1996 welfare bill...
...will be days before the smoke clears in the Senate from the week's debate on gun control. For the moment, though, Democrats believe they have hit a bull?s-eye. Not only did they succeed in getting the Republican majority to do a complete about-face on the question of mandatory background checks for gun-show sales, but they also pressed the Senate to adopt a measure against juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons and a ban on the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. Even better, from their viewpoint, the Republican mandatory-check system the Senate approved Friday...
...Whatever the merits of the measure," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Republicans have handed the Democrats a great issue in the wake of Littleton." Though it?s no secret that both parties regularly cater to the special interest groups that back their elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they...
Faced with a relentless barrage of criticism from top Democrats, defections from some wavering Republicans and continuing outrage against guns from the public in the aftermath of the Littleton massacre, Senate Republican leaders staged an extraordinary retreat on Thursday. Following a blast from President Clinton saying there "was simply no excuse" for not passing a bill more closely controlling gun sales at gun shows, suddenly nervous Republicans scrambled to do just that. The latest maneuvering followed a set of mostly partisan votes late Wednesday in which the Senate had opted for a loose, Republican-backed voluntary background check for sales...
...Senate Republican leaders finally realized they had handed the Democrats a choice issue," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They opted to play their base but they misread the current public mood." Ever since the Littleton massacre, the NRA and its allies in Congress have known that more gun control legislation was headed their way. The issue was how to deflect the effort without looking insensitive. "Republicans thought they could get some cover with their voluntary proposal," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "but it didn?t work." A big question now, says Dickerson, "is whether they will have...