Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beleaguered nominee for Defense Secretary, the real issue is the motivation of his judges in the Senate, who he implied were hypocrites pursuing the partisan politics of personal pique. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators late in the evening who've had a few drinks . . . ((to)) vote on vital issues of nuclear deterrence?" Tower asked with rhetorical venom. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators to accept honorariums, PAC contributions and paid vacations from special interests...
...slap away the hand he offered them at his Inauguration. Yet the Administration seemed to know that Tower was a lost cause. By Thursday, when the Senate began its rancorous debate on the nomination, the President's advisers admitted they had failed to lock up a single Democratic vote. On Capitol Hill the Bush team's lobbying effort was being called "nonexistent...
...Armed Services Committee: since the will-o'-the-wisp of bipartisanship was likely to evaporate anyway, a fight to the finish could provide the President with an opportunity to charge that it was the Democrats who spoiled the atmosphere first. "It's been so embarrassing already, what's a vote on the Senate floor?" said one operative working on Tower's behalf. "Besides, this way the Administration gets to identify exactly who's against them." Increasingly, the battle was drawn tightly along partisan lines, with pro-Tower Republicans headed by Dole facing off against Democrats lined up behind Sam Nunn...
...Jerusalem legendary Mayor Teddy Kollek, 77, won a sixth term in office with 59% of the vote. But his Labor-affiliated party, One Jerusalem, lost its majority on the powerful city council, in part because of low Arab turnout...
...nationwide municipal elections were not about road improvements and garbage collection -- or so said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "Every vote for the Likud," he proclaimed at an election rally, "means that Israel wants no business with the murderers of our sons." When the votes were tallied last week, his right-wing Likud bloc had carried 44 of the 99 municipalities, up from 26 in 1983. Elated, Shamir claimed an ideological victory for his policies opposing both territorial compromise and talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization...