Word: democratic
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Even as Bush dismissed the abortion rights debate as unimportant, Virginians were proving him wrong. A CBS news exit poll found that one-third of the Virginia voters considered abortion rights the foremost issue of the campaign. They proved it by electing as governor Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, a pro- choice advocate. They proved it by electing as lieutenant-governor the underdog Donald S. Beyer, Jr., an automobile salesman who ran on a pro-choice platform...
During his 1988 presidential campaign, Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) said, "Just as it took Nixon to go to China, it might take a liberal Democrat to change Social Security...
Since I consider myself a liberal Democrat, I suppose I am allowed to propose a modest change in the system: We should...
...asked to bend the law for someone who broke the law." Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin was railing against the proposal, which the Senate passed by a 78- to-17 vote last week, to restore Oliver North's $23,000 military pension. It was halted after his July conviction for destroying Government documents related to the Iran-contra scandal...
Some Senators objected to passing what amounted to a private law for North sponsored by Jesse Helms of North Carolina. But Helms was persuaded by Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden to expand the bill so that it would apply to all former military men convicted of similar crimes. If the House concurs, Congress will be favoring government pensions to a select group of convicted felons who served in the military. Not that Ollie needs the money. He earns an estimated $25,000 a speech...