Word: democratic
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Annoyed by the growing G.O.P. challenge, state Democrats thought they had found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
...case, called Fullilove vs. Kreps, focuses on a 1977 federal law authorizing grants to local governments for public projects with $4 billion to be allocated by Dec. 31, 1978. Noting that minority-controlled companies had been getting only 1% of all Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other...
Like Louis XIV at Versailles, Long wields total power in the United States Senate. For over two decades, this Democrat of the Bourbon South has controlled the Senate Finance Committee like his own fiefdom. He thus personally approves every piece of legislation which touches what Harry Truman called, "the most sensitive nerve in the human body--the pocketbook nerve." Without a doubt, Long's VAT proposal will pinch the money nerves of all Americans...
...board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared that the new agency might repeal two decades of antipollution crusades. But a strong coalition demanding an end to energy delays resisted substantial weakening of the new body's authority...
Both the Administration and Congress remain reluctant to roll out the two Big Berthas of energy conservation: a stiff new gasoline tax and rationing. The White House so far has not supported the proposal by Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn for a 50? per gal. tax. Even Connecticut Democrat Toby Moffett, a former rationing advocate, now concludes that that step "should be the last resort." But if plaintive appeals from Washington to "drive three miles a day less" go unheeded, the nation may be forced to begin considering such Stygian last resorts...