Word: vote
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...fall just beginning, activists on campus dream about the battles awaiting them. Which issues will share the spotlight this year? Although time will reveal all, we can be sure about one thing: The fight over ROTC is hardly over, especially after the deans rejected last April's pro-ROTC vote in the Undergraduate Council...
Secondly, third parties can often appeal to the vast majority of American's who don't normally vote. These alienated non-voters are generally swayed by the anti-establishment tone typical of most third-party candidates. Gov. Ventura is living proof of how these non-voters can sway an election...
...proposed cuts are part of a budget plan drafted by House and Senate leaders. That plan has already been approved by the House, meaning reductions in funding to all science agencies but the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Senate is currently debating the measure, and is expected to vote on it today...
...Chinese negotiators arrive in the capital, House majority whip Tom Delay is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other GOP leaders, including Senate majority leader Trent Lott, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...