Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is not the image Gingrich puts on public display. Instead he focuses on a vision of "cybernetic democracy" and keeps his eyes on the bigger prize he could garner after November. With Congress expected to adjourn at week's end, Democrats now outnumber Republicans by a 256-178 majority. Things almost certainly will be different come January. Predicts confident Illinois Republican Henry Hyde: "The Democrats are in for one hell of a ride. Having been the dominant power for 40 years, they've grown complacent and arrogant. They're going to chafe and be irritated to the point...
...group of Republicans. And the only programs designed to address the nation's economic slump were votes taken to extend unemployment benefits to the 9.6 million Americans who are out of work. At week's end it was difficult to say who was most eager for the lawmakers to adjourn: Bush or the public. Or maybe even the members themselves...
EVEN WHILE THE 102ND CONGRESS RACED TO ADjourn for the campaign finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote...