Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mention rancorously. House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, whose stalled plan was upstaged at a moment when he is running hard to capture the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Gore, said dismissively that a bill that passes in committee "by a one-vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn...
...state legislature, he risked a rap for callousness during his first gubernatorial year when he abruptly eliminated the state's nonfamily-welfare program: the following winter, several former recipients froze to death, homeless. Last week's deal, which was supported by Detroit's mayor Dennis Archer, a liberal Democrat, made Engler look more statesmanlike. It also seemed to put him on the side of the children, which to a politician is like being on the side of the angels. Last week some of his supporters in the conservative wing of the Republican Party began mentioning him for national office...
...Colorado Democrat favors economic sanctions against countries that tolerate genital mutilation. But many African-born women who live in the U.S. are opposed. "Sanctions are stupid," says Dr. Asha Mohamud, a Somali-born pediatrician in Washington. "The practice is not being done intentionally to harm anyone. Mothers do it in good faith for their children. If you cut funding to these countries, you are hurting the people you want to protect. The goal should be to improve the economic and educational status of women...
Dershowitz, a Democrat who said he voted for Clinton, said power may have been abused during a meeting of Bernard Nussbaum, White House counsel, and members of the Treasury about an FDIC investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement with Whitewater...
...inconceivable to me that the Rose firm could have accidentally shredded files containing Vince Foster's initials after the special prosecutor was appointed....There are a lot of things that need explaining," Dershowitz said. "My hope as a liberal Clinton Democrat...is that there's nothing here. My expertise, as a criminal lawyer, is a little bit more worried...