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Incumbent resigned April 29, 1981, before a planned expulsion vote, having been convicted of bribery in the Abscam sting operation. New member elected July 21, 1981. Democratic hold.
Resigned January 27, 1981, to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Maryland 5: May 19, 1981 Gladys Spellman: Steny Hoyer: Incapacitated since last Congress and seat declared vacant February 24, 1981. Ohio 4: June 25, 1981 Tennyson Guyer: Mike Oxley: Died April 12, 1981. Mississippi 4: July 7, 1981 Jon Hinson: Wayne Dowdy ...
Williams won the 1981 Crosby by-election and became the first SDP member elected to Parliament, but she lost the seat in the 1983 general election. She served as President of the SDP from 1982 to 1987 and supported the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party that formed the Liberal Democrats.
Unlike some members of the historical progressive wing, such as Bryan who held fundamentalist religious views, [26] modern progressives in the Democratic Party are secular and culturally liberal on social issues like race and identity, where they draw inspiration from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 proposed by ...
The Limehouse Declaration was a statement issued on 25 January 1981 by four senior British Labour politicians, all MPs or former MPs and Cabinet Ministers: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams. [1]
Reagan is reelected in a 49-state landslide victory over liberal Democrat Walter Mondale. [144] 1986. September: Associate Justice William Rehnquist is confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. [145] Reagan chooses Rehnquist in a deliberate effort to move the Court to the right, knowing he has the conservative constitutional agenda ...
With a stated goal of reducing crime and homicide, the Democratic Party has introduced various gun control measures, most notably the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Brady Bill of 1993, and Crime Control Act of 1994. However, some Democrats, especially rural, Southern, and Western Democrats, favor fewer restrictions on firearm possession and ...
Reacting to all these perceptions of American decline internationally and domestically, a group of academics, journalists, politicians, and policymakers, labeled by many as "new conservatives" or "neoconservatives", since many of them were still Democrats, rebelled against the Democratic Party's leftward drift on defense issues in the 1970s ...