Word: voting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...feared that the vote would be the last chance to pass the bill before the current session ended. But the bill's sponsors were able to push the package through Saturday evening after removing the controversial provision added by the Senate...
...refused to concede defeat late yesterday, and accused President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the army-backed caretaker government of large-scale vote-rigging in what most analysts and opinion polls predicted would be a close contest...
Foley said the compromise could be wrapped up in time to reach the floor for a vote today...
...appeal -- House Democrats are readying what they freely call a "soak-the-rich" tax plan. Conservative House Republicans are joining this philosophic fray with a vengeance. "We're not stating the position of the President," says Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards, "nor are we stating what we think Democrats would vote for." There is a smoke-and-mirrors quality to their proposal, misleadingly billed as a tax hike on the rich. But it reflects a supply-side vision far closer in spirit to Ronald Reagan than to George Bush...
...case, the rebellion by a coalition of liberal Democrats and Reaganite Republicans was in effect a vote of no-confidence in Bush and the congressional leadership's end-of-ideology experiment with European-style coalition government for domestic affairs. Such a caretaker arrangement suited a President with a lilliputian domestic agenda and a Democratic leadership more concerned with sharing power than making tough choices. But it ill served a nation that had for too long papered over its problems...