Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Senator was William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat. He has led some lonely fights in the past, but none seemed as desperate as his campaign against the SST. The nation has already spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow of money, he was defeated 58 to 22. But for the past eight months, he has been joined by a sizable citizens' army of environmentalists, including members of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wilderness Society...
...another $2.4 billion. House Republicans did, however, succeed in eliminating-at least for the time being -provisions that would have given Washington wide powers in the establishment of new communities. Their success illuminated the absentee problem in the postelection session. "We had the votes," said Representative Thomas Ashley, Ohio Democrat. "We simply didn't have them on the floor...
...tall, affable Democrat, Egeberg has been an Administration outsider from the start. In appearances before congressional committees, he has often damned Nixon health programs with less than faint praise. Six months ago, he publicly questioned whether the White House knew what was going on in the health field...
...time on the phone at his parents' home in suburban Cohasset, trying to figure out how to pay off a debt of nearly $20,000-all that's left of a nine-month campaign that ended on election day leaving him 1700 votes short of becoming the first Democrat since 1912 to represent Massachusetts' 12th Congressional District...
Everywhere he goes-about 25 states this fall-Mr. McGovern is meeting with former supporters of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy and any other Democrat who will listen. He is telling them he is interested in running for President and will make an announcement about it soon after the 1970 elections. He is saying Mr. Nixon can be beaten in 1972, but that the Democratic nominee can only emerge from state primary battles, and so the field is wide open; stay uncommitted for awhile, he advises potential delegates to the next convention...