Word: republicanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denied seats at the Democratic National Convention next summer in New York City. (Democratic officials in New Hampshire have apparently complied technically with the rules by introducing a bill in the legislature to change that state's primary date, but they have no decisive influence in the Republican-dominated legislature, and actually like the first-in-the-nation status.) One of those two challenges seemed to collapse last week. Realizing that he did not have the votes to approve a postponement, Speaker McGee said he does not even want the delaying bill brought to the floor of the house...
...Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers in his small state ("Vermont is not for sale"), lost a Senate race to Republican Robert Stafford and is now a lawyer in Bellows Falls (pop. 5,263) and a lobbyist in the state legislature. Wendell Anderson made the mistake of resigning his Minnesota governorship so that his successor could appoint him to a U.S. Senate seat. At the next election the voters disappointed...
...earned a reputation on Capitol Hill for effectively delivering his moderate to conservative views. One device: sending detailed letters to colleagues, including one that helped defeat Carter's standby gas rationing plan ("It doesn't do what you think, but it does a lot you never imagined"). The bachelor Republican, who was graduated from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt it was "a cure worse than the disease...
...pronounced Song-as) to spend two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia before getting his law degree at Yale. Tsongas opened his practice in his home town of Lowell, Mass., where his Greek emigrant grandfather had settled, and won his first election to Congress in 1974, by defeating Republican Edward Brooke. Considered to be one of the party's rising young liberals, Tsongas has strongly supported the Kennedy-Waxman national health plan and has sharply criticized both Carter and the Congress for failing to develop an adequate energy program. Says Tsongas: "The U.S. is going to have to make...
...While the incumbent speaker and supporters were feasting at a dinner, Brown's cohorts, known as "the dirty dozen," collected legislators' signatures on a petition that changed the house's voting rules and enabled Brown to call for an immediate vote that gave him the gavel. Since then the Republican, a former insurance salesman from Daytona Beach, has reformed the ramshackle procedures of the house, cut school taxes and held down property taxes. Brown, who stands for efficiency and economy...