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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15Stop Us Before We Vote Again
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Last year all 55 Democratic Senators voted as one in a
- failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the 1990
- Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from
- introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem:
- a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators
- who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican
- challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas."
- Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign
- committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for
- a bill that can get signed." Translation: the vulnerable
- legislators are agitating for a compromise bill that's closer
- to the White House version than the measure endorsed by the
- Democratic leadership. The endangered Democrats cite a recent
- series of polls indicating that a majority of the public
- resents any law that is perceived as establishing strong
- preferences for minority groups.
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