Word: democratically
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...research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over a chicken dinner at the Naval Observatory residence and then held a mock debate on stools in a foyer. Oklahoma Democrat Mike Synar played Perot and White House Communications Director Mark Gearan stood in for moderator Larry King...
There is real reform in a House measure offered by Representative Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat. It calls for suitability reviews of hard- rock mining proposals (similar to reviews for coal-mine leases), an end to "patenting" (buying U.S. lands for an absurd $5 an acre), federal reclamation standards (now left to states) and an 8% royalty paid to the U.S. on net production. Oil, gas and coal leases on federal land require a 12.5% gross royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry...
...called another Democrat who plans to vote against NAFTA. I hardly needed to lecture him about economics; he has postgraduate degrees galore. Yet he ) sounded almost blase. The gist of his comment was that the past 12 years had been a time of high living on the backs of the working guy -- one defeat for labor after another -- so it was time to let labor win one. Congress would defeat NAFTA, he said. The President of Mexico would lose his job. They'd elect a new one, and in a year or two Canada, Mexico and the U.S. would negotiate...
...last week is any harbinger, 1994 will be good to Republicans. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Christine Todd Whitman ousted Democrat James Florio, while New York City Mayor David Dinkins lost to Liberal-Republican Rudolph Giuliani. A Republican also won the Virginia statehouse, with George Allen scoring a victory over Mary Sue Terry. Top Democrats including President Clinton tried to downplay the significance of the results, attributing them to the vagaries of local politics...
...vote, Senators supported the ethics committee's effort to subpoena 8,400 pages of diaries as part of a sexual-misconduct investigation of Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican. The five-term Senator refused to hand over the diaries, however, and the battle will now move into the federal courts. Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia savaged Packwood in a speech on the Senate floor and called on him to resign...