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...rising young star within the Democratic Party, U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb (D-Va.), last night laid out a vision for his party's future that broke with some recent Democratic stances but reaffirmed older party ideals...
...speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Robb said his party needs to rethink the relevance of many current federal programs it once supported, in light of new fiscal realities created by two successive Republican administrations. Robb, a former governor believed by many to be a presidential hopeful, sounded some untraditional calls for heavy scrutiny of federal spending...
...believe we need to take a hard look at the entire federal government, to retire programs that have achieved their original ends, and to subject the rest to more vigorous standards of performance," said Robb. "Our success will be measured not in dollars spent but in lives improved...
Such new thinking, Robb said, could put the Democrats back in the White House...
...emerge as a presidential party...the Democrats have got to remind the American people what sets Democrats apart and how they differ from Republicans," said Robb, who is the current chair of the Democratic Leadership Council...