Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

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183 Index Note: Abbreviation “CBC” stands for Congressional Black Caucus. Initials “GHW” and “GW” stand for George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush, respectively. abortion/abortion rights, 68–69, 85, 96, 97–98, 112, 122 Abscam Scandal, 45–46 accommodationism, 12, 15, 24, 144–45 Addabbo, Joseph, 61 affirmative action, 32, 34, 50–53, 85– 86. See also education/education reform Affordable Care Act of 2010, 112–15 Afghanistan, 61, 85, 91, 106, 116–17, 121, 124, 134 AIDS programs, 100 al-Bashir, Omar, 95 al Qaeda, 91, 119. See also war on terrorism alternative budget proposals about CBC divisions on, 4 beginnings of, 50, 59 “Blue Dog” Caucus, 4, 78–80, 87–90 Bush (GHW) administration, 59–60 Bush (GW) administration, 89–90 Clinton administration, 80 Obama administration, 111–13 Reagan administration, 58–59 record of floor votes, 60 See also budgets and deficitreduction ; Congressional Black Caucus American exceptionalism, 11 amnesty. See immigration reform Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 83 Ashcroft, John David, 85–86, 103 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 126 Bakke, Regents of the University of California v. (U.S. Supreme Court, 1978), 85 Barnes, Melody, 109 Beckmann, Matthew N., 130 Bell, Griffin B., 33 bin Laden, Osama, 91, 95, 119 bipartisanship alternative budgeting proposals, 59–60 budgetary politics and, 57–58, 78–79 CBC divisions over, 44–45, 67–69 civil rights legislation, 49–50 education reform, 100–101 faith-based initiatives, 99–100 party loyalties and, 55–57 presidential leadership and, 130–33 Republican Revolution of 1994, 72–74 tax reforms, 144 war against terror, 118–19 See also partisan politics 184 • Index Bishop, Sanford, 4, 29, 78, 80–81, 87– 90, 92, 93, 98–99, 101, 106, 112, 118, 121–22, 127 Black Presidential Politics in America (Walters), 52 bloc voting, 2–3, 75 “Blue Dog” Caucus alternative budget proposals, 4, 78– 79, 87–90 deficit-reduction efforts, 111 Poole-Rosenthal scores, 141–42, 169 Boehner, John, 111, 117 Bonior, David, 101 Bork, Robert, 70 Botha, P. W., 65 The Bridge Over the Racial Divide (Wilson ), 147–48 Brown, Corrine, 89 Brown, Jesse, 75 Brown, Lee P., 75 Brown, Ron, 75 Brown, Scott, 112 Browning, Rufus P., 15 budgets and deficit-reduction about the CBC role, 4 budgetary issues, 37–40 Bush, GHW administration, 57– 64 Bush, GW administration, 87–90, 104 Carter administration, 37–40 Clinton administration, 25, 75–80 Nixon administration, 42 Obama administration, 111–12 Reagan administration, 54–57 See also alternative budget proposals; inflation/anti-inflation programs; stimulus spending; tax cuts Burris, Roland, 120, 125 Bush (GHW) administration about CBC relationship, 49–51 budgetary issues, 57–58, 68 CBC alternative budget proposals, 59–60 defense spending, 63–64 Gulf War (1991), 63–64 policy toward South Africa, 65–66 political polarization and racial policies , 52–53 Bush (GW) administration about CBC relationship, 85–87 budgetary issues, 87–89 CBC alternative budget proposals, 89–90 CBC support of, 131 CBC unity and political agenda, 102–6 faith-based initiatives, 99–100 free-trade agreements, 104–5 gay rights and abortion ban, 97– 99 impeachment threat, 24 minimum-wage increase, 102 No Child Left Behind, 100–101 racial policies, 12, 97 reauthorization of Voting Rights Act, 93–94 relationship with United Nations, 96–97 violence and civil war in Africa, 94–96 war in Iraq, 92–93 war on terrorism, 90–92 Bush v. Gore (2000), 90 busing of school children, 32, 44 Butterfield, George Kenneth, 23, 93, 99, 124 Butts, Cassandra, 109 Caliendo, Stephen M., 11 Canon, David T., 3, 13, 72 Cao, Joseph, 104 “Care Act” legislation, 99–100 Carson, Andre, 127 Carson, Julia, 79, 99, 127 Carter administration about CBC relationship, 32–33 budgetary issues, 37–40 CBC political agenda, 33–36 CBC radicalism during, 36–37 CBC support of, 43–46, 130–32 passage of Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, 40–42 reelection campaign, 48 Index • 185 resignation of Young as UN Ambassador , 46–47 caucuses, role and purpose, 23. See also “Blue Dog” Caucus; Democratic House Caucus; Progressive Caucus Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 118–19 Challenger (space shuttle) disaster, 70 Champagne, Richard, 24 Cheney, Dick, 63 Chisholm, Shirley, 10, 22, 40, 44, 103 Christopher, Maurine, 10 Chu, Steve, 109 Citizens United v. the FEC (2010), 124 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 26, 100 Civil Rights Act of 1991, 3, 49 civil rights legislation, 8, 52, 68, 69, 96–97. See also Voting Rights Act of 1965 civil rights movement, 7...