Word: voting
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...vote last Thursday was not even close. The decision came on a Democratic alternative to the capital-gains cut that would have made tax- deductible IRAs available to more people, balanced by a tax increase on earners of the highest incomes. That proposal lost, 239 to 190. Bush bagged 64 Democrats, while only one Republican, Douglas Bereuter of Nebraska, voted for the alternative...
...House of Representatives has yet to vote on its version of the National Drug Control Strategy Init- iative, part of President Bush's "War onDrugs." The Senate anti-drug bill steps up fundingfor drug education, treatment programs and drugtrafficking control efforts...
According to Lee, the debate centers around an attempt to capture the city's Black vote in the upcoming elections. Cambridge's only Black councillor, Saundra Graham, is retiring this year, and several candidates are looking to grab her constituents, he says...
...Independents are making a big bid for the Black vote, and that's the key," said...
...aide said the senators would try to introduce their own amendment to limit the Bingaman proposal today, before the Senate vote. Even if the bill were passed, he said, several senators would attempt to modify the measure in subsequent House-Senate conference committee hearings...