Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kohl suggested earlier yesterday that allies could give a green light to producing the new rockets while delaying a vote on whether to deploy them...
...attempt to mollify the 98% of the populace that earns less than members of Congress do now, the House will also vote to ban honorariums -- fees for speaking, or just showing up, at special-interest-group functions. Wright noted that since, under current rules, members are allowed to keep up to $26,000 a year in honorariums, "they'll come out about the same in income" with the 30% raise. But few House members earn the maximum in honorariums, so most will be better off. The House bill will also cut back salary increases for Executive-department officials and judges...
...dares ram through a confirmation unless Tower, 63, can decisively dispel rumors of drinking and womanizing that have dogged him for years. Last week those charges arose at the next-to-last moment to haunt him yet again. The Armed Services Committee had scheduled a vote for Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
...greater shock was to come. The Republican Party, a tiny far-right grouping founded in 1983 and headed by a former SS officer, emerged with a surprising 7.5% of the vote. The showing not only secured the Republicans their first eleven seats in the 138-member city legislature but guaranteed the party two seats in the Bundestag, to be occupied after the national elections in 1990. As for the cocky Christian Democrats, they trailed their own 1985 performance by almost 9 percentage points, winding up with just 55 seats, the same number captured by their perennial rival, the Social Democratic...
...near hysterical predictions of a resurgent right, however, did not quite fit the facts. Just as the far right made an unexpectedly strong showing, so did the left. The Alternative List party improved on its 1985 result by more than a percentage point, taking 11.8% of the vote and 17 seats. The returns seemed to reflect less a sudden shift in the electorate's ideological complexion than a general dissatisfaction with the larger parties. Chronic housing shortages, spiraling rents, tightened health and pension programs and a continuing influx of ethnic Germans and asylum-seeking refugees all conspired to deal...