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Nancy-Ann DeParle

...usually. You were meeting with both Democrats and Republican members. Yes. Yes. ...
...driven more by Republicans than by Democrats . Clinton decided to embrace it, but ...
...decided to embrace it, but a lot of Democrats were unhappy about the cuts. I foun...
...unhappy about the cuts. I found that Democrats were unhappy, Republicans often forgo...
...you met with members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, about potentia...

...major bone of contention, both between Democrats and Republicans and among som...
...and Republicans and among some Democrats . The individual mandate was anothe...
...individual mandate and, actually, some Democrats who said the whole thing should be o...
...Republicans and some very progressive Democrats don't like. Some very progressiv...
...don't like. Some very progressive Democrats think it should be the state'...
...sense concern among either Republicans, Democrats , or both, about trying to d...
...the differences between Republicans and Democrats over the public option, you said, “I...
...It wasn't just Republicans. We had Democrats for whom that was a line they said the...
...Everyone wanted to do it, but the Democrats didn't like the way the Republican...
...an op-ed for the Post arguing that Democrats should support adding a drug benefit t...
...mid-2000s. That was acrimonious between Democrats and Republicans, but onc...
...of political hay made over that, but Democrats didn't refuse to fund it. They didn'...
...members of Congress, especially the Democrats who had worked to pass the bill, ha...
...usually. You were meeting with both Democrats and Republican members. Yes. Yes. ...
...driven more by Republicans than by Democrats . Clinton decided to embrace it, but ...
...decided to embrace it, but a lot of Democrats were unhappy about the cuts. I foun...
...unhappy about the cuts. I found that Democrats were unhappy, Republicans often forgo...
...you met with members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, about potentia...
...major bone of contention, both between Democrats and Republicans and among som...
...and Republicans and among some Democrats . The individual mandate was anothe...
...individual mandate and, actually, some Democrats who said the whole thing should be o...
...Republicans and some very progressive Democrats don't like. Some very progressiv...
...don't like. Some very progressive Democrats think it should be the state'...
...sense concern among either Republicans, Democrats , or both, about trying to d...
...the differences between Republicans and Democrats over the public option, you said, “I...
...It wasn't just Republicans. We had Democrats for whom that was a line they said the...
...Everyone wanted to do it, but the Democrats didn't like the way the Republican...
...an op-ed for the Post arguing that Democrats should support adding a drug benefit t...
...mid-2000s. That was acrimonious between Democrats and Republicans, but onc...
...of political hay made over that, but Democrats didn't refuse to fund it. They didn'...
...members of Congress, especially the Democrats who had worked to pass the bill, ha...

Cecile Richards

...as the most charismatic leaders in the Democratic Party . You, too, have a similar kinship...

Jeanne Lambrew

...those ideas, were there ways that the Democratic Party was thinking differently abou...
...is that there was a cadre of House Democrats who really come from low-cost states...

Jim Houser

...it would be dominated by Republicans or Democrats . You're engaged in all thi...
...that had been approved by the Democrats ; because Republicans kept saying tha...

John Mier

...kind of a—I don't know how many of the Democrats really understood just how good it was...
...a press person who worked for the Democratic Party . She was lining up local televisio...

Michael Minor

...some of the people of color, the more Democrats , whatever you want to say, out ther...
...on the fence, some of those Blue Dog Democrats , might have voted against it and migh...
...that really helped some of the Blue Dog Democrats to come out and be supportive of it...
...to be seen as poo-pooing everything the Democrats had done, but he also saw ho...
...and supporting some of these Blue Dog Democrats , as I love to call them, and othe...

Nancy Sutley

...level from local leaders—was that both Democrats as well as Republicans? At the loca...

Robert Trapp

...“Hey, we're going to drill.” Then the Democrats come in and say, “No, we're not.” ...
...Democrat registered. However, our Democrats like guns, are against gun control...
...business. But they call themselves Democrats . And they will vote for Democrat...
...Democrats. And they will vote for Democrats [laughs], even though most Democrat...
...Democrats [laughs], even though most Democrats are going to do exactly opposite o...

...he decided to just turn everybody into Democrats . But they're still Catholics. They'r...
...they oppose so many of the things that Democrats tend to stand for but still support? ...
...me as a person, I think most Democrats were representing me and what I'd lik...
...and that didn't happen. I think the Democrats were trying to protect people who coul...
...been a bit of a shift, at least in the Democratic Party , in how they're thinking abou...
...I'm sure the party faithful and the Democratic Party here would surely give Bingaman—and ...
...in baby steps. I think it's going to be Democrats dragging Republicans along step b...

Sandra Fluke

...my mom's side of the family were Democrats . They were education Democrats, a lo...
...were Democrats. They were education Democrats , a lot of teachers. And my dad's sid...
...that election went pretty well for Democrats , so it was a very exciting time. Ho...

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