Word: solarz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC caucus in Congress met just before Christmas to discuss the party line on the Gulf Crisis, 29 speakers argued against a congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq. Only one, Rep. Stephen Solarz (N.Y.), defended the president's position...
...Solarz spent the next few weeks scrounging up what limited support for the Bush resolution he could find among his colleagues. But in the end, only 86 Democrats in the House and 10 in the Senate voted...
...Solarz story underscores the Democratic Party's fatal vulnerability on national security issues. In opposing the force resolution in Congress last month, the Democrats took a tremendous political risk. Should the Gulf War prove successful, they will once again be susceptible to familiar charges of naivete and weakness that have haunted them since Vietnam. In presidential elections to come, the Democrats' widely perceived softness on defense will seem even softer...
...already behind him, the President moved quickly after the Geneva breakdown to gain support from Democrats like Florida Congressman Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He also sought the backing of longtime supporters of Israel in the House like New Jersey's Robert Torricelli and Stephen Solarz of New York, who became the strongest Democratic voice in the House in favor of war against Iraq...
...Even hawks on Capitol Hill say that in the event of an extended and bloody struggle in the gulf, it will be crucial for the President to have Congress on record as with him from the outset. "If you want Congress in on the landing," says House Democrat Stephen Solarz of New York, who supports the use of force against Saddam, "you had better have Congress in on the takeoff...