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The Democrats (Portuguese: Democratas, DEM) is a political party in Brazil, which is considered the main party within the right-wing spectrum. It was founded in 1985 under the name of Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal, PFL) from a dissidence of the defunct PDS, successor to the ARENA, the official party during the military dictatorship of 19641985. It changed to its current name in 2007. The original name reflected the party's support of free market policies,[5] rather than the identification with international liberal parties. Instead, the party affiliated itself to the international federations of Christian democratic (CDI) and conservative parties (IDU). The Democrats' identification number is 25 and its colors are green, blue, and white.

On January 24, 1985, DEM's direct predecessor, the Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal - PFL), was founded by a dissident faction of the Democratic Social Party (PDS), which had been founded in 1980 as the successor of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the former ruling party during the time of military dictatorship (196579). At the time, Brazil was under the effervescence that put an end to the military regime. In the previous year, a series of rallies known as Diretas J gathered thousands of peoples in the streets of major cities to demand the direct election of the next President, as envisaged in the Dante de Oliveira amendment, which was pending approval in the Congress. On January 10, 1984, PDS rejected supporting this proposition, but a pro-Diretas J faction emerged within the party a few days later. On April 25, 1984, the Congress, besieged by Army officials, voted the amendment. It did not reach the required quorum for approval, due to the absence of 112 deputies from PDS.

After the attempts to have a direct election failed, discussions about the presidential succession turned to the National Congress, which would elect the President indirectly in the following year. The pro-Diretas J faction of PDS formed the Liberal Front, and decided to support PMDB's candidate Tancredo Neves against PDS's Paulo Maluf, the official candidate of the military regime. With the support of Aureliano Chaves, Marco Maciel, Antnio Carlos Magalhes, and Jorge Bornhausen, among other major dissidents from PDS, the Liberal Front named Jos Sarney as Neves' running mate for the 1985 presidential election. On January 15, 1985, the Neves/Sarney presidential ticket got 480 of the 686 votes available in the Congress (70% of the total). Nine days later, on January 24, 1985, the Liberal Front officially disbanded from PDS and formed the Liberal Front Party (PFL). With the death of Tancredo Neves on April 21, 1985, Sarney took office as President. Due to the same electoral law that forbade coalitions, Sarney was forced to join PMDB, of which he is still a member today. PFL, however, was a major ally of his government. His daughter, Roseana, was a member of PFL until 2006, when she was expelled from the party for supporting Luiz Incio Lula da Silva.

In 1989, Aureliano Chaves was chosen as PFL's presidential candidate, but the weakness of his campaign made most leaders of the party to declare their support for National Reconstruction Party (PRN)'s candidate, Fernando Collor, himself a former member of ARENA, PDS, and PMDB. PFL's Senators, however, had masterminded the candidacy of businessman and television presenter Silvio Santos, a maneuver which had been hampered by the Supreme Electoral Court. An ally of Collor in the runoff election against Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, PFL participated in his government, and, even after his impeachment, it participated in the coalition that supported Itamar Franco's government. From 1994 to 1998, PFL supported Fernando Henrique Cardoso and thus secured the post of vice-president with Marco Maciel. Prior to the 2002 election, an operation led by the Federal Police in Maranho undermined the presidential candidacy of Roseana Sarney, leading to a rupture with the government.

In the legislative elections, on October 6, 2002, the party won 84 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 14 out of 54 seats in the Senate. After this election, which saw the rise of Lula of the PT as President, PFL became an opposition party for the first time ever since the 1964 coup. The party reorganized its alliance with Cardoso's PSDB in order to form the official opposition in the National Congress.

In the following general elections, held on October 1, 2006, the party won 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 6 out of the 27 seats up for election in the Senate, making it the second largest party in the Senate. The party does not usually run presidential candidates, but does run gubernatorial candidates in several states. In the 2006 elections, the party lost several state governorships, but won the governorship of the Federal District. However, this governorship was later lost due to a corruption scandal in which Governor Jos Roberto Arruda was caught on tape receiving bribery from private companies.

In 2007, the party was refounded and adopted its current name.

In the 2010 elections, the party continued to suffer losses in the Parliament, losing 22 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and 7 seats in the Senate. DEM was able to elect only two Senators that year (Demstentes Torres from Gois, and Jos Agripino Maia from Rio Grande do Norte), for a total of 6, falling from the second largest party in the Senate to the fourth. Its longest-serving member, former Vice President Maciel, which had been first elected to the National Congress in 1966, was not re-elected.[6] On the other hand, DEM won the governorships of the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Santa Catarina, expanding its presence in state administrations.

The party lost over half of its votes when comparing the 2006 and 2010 Senate elections. In 2006, it had 21.6 million votes for the upper house, while in 2010 it had just 10.2 million votes. The decline was less sharp in the Chamber of Deputies elections, as it had 10.1 million votes in 2006, and 7.3 million in 2010. The decrease in DEM's voting was attributed to the rapid growth of the PT and its allies in the Northeast. In 1986, the party had won 36% of the votes for the Chamber in the Northeast, while in 2006 this was reduced to 17%.[7]

As a result of the decline in DEM's popularity, the party has considered merging with another major party, such as the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) or the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB). A possible merge with PMDB, however, has been rejected by most of DEM's leaders due to the fact that it is a member of the Lulista alliance in the National Congress and in most local level administrations. In 2011, it suffered another decline in its membership when So Paulo mayor Kassab founded the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and took prominent DEM members such as Senator Ktia Abreu, Santa Catarina governor Raimundo Colombo, and former vice-presidential candidate Indio da Costa with him. PSD has 52 federal deputies and 2 Senators, most of them former DEM members.

The party is usually considered to be right-wing.[8] In 2006, the party's former president Jorge Bornhausen stated in an interview to Brazil's largest newsmagazine Veja, that the party should be considered centrist and socially liberal.[9] However, other party leaders have classified it as "internationally, closest to Christian democracy".[citation needed]

According to political scientist Jairo Nicolau, the name change was intended to crown a process of modernization inside the party.[10] "DEM was launched to be a modern right-wing party, with a new program, and aimed at the urban middle classes; a kind of Conservative Party of the UK", he says.[10] This, according to him, explains the departure of founding members and the rise of younger leaders.[10] For instance, Jorge Bornhausen, which had been a member of UDN, retired from the presidency of the party to give place to federal deputy Rodrigo Maia, son of Csar Maia.[7] The Santa Catarina section of the party was taken over by Bornhausen's own son, deputy Paulo Bornhausen.[7] In Bahia, ACM Neto took over the legacy of his grandfather, Antnio Carlos Magalhes.[7]

Internationally, the Democrats are affiliated with both the Christian democratic Centrist Democrat International[11] and the conservative International Democrat Union.[12] Its youth organization, Juventude Democratas, and the Rio Grande do Sul section, however, are associated with the Liberal Network for Latin America.

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President Donald Trump walks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) and Sen. John Barrasso into a meeting with Senate Republicans on Tuesday. | Alex Brandon/AP

Republicans are preparing to advance a short-term spending bill without relief for Dreamers and dare Democrats to vote against it.

By RACHAEL BADE, JOHN BRESNAHAN and SARAH FERRIS

11/29/2017 01:06 PM EST

President Donald Trump and congressional GOP leaders are daring Democrats to shut down the government over immigration rather than back a plan to extend funding into January.

After Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer boycotted a Tuesday afternoon White House negotiating session on government funding, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell began hashing out a plan to pass a short-term spending bill to fund the government into January. The measure would not include a fix for so-called Dreamers, something Democrats have demanded be part of any spending bill.

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Trump was open to the idea of a short-term continuing resolution during a White House meeting with GOP leaders, according to multiple Hill and White House sources familiar with the meeting.

While the plan hasnt been finalized, the House would move first under this scenario, passing a bill with only Republican votes. The Senate would then try to follow suit, but it would need to pick off at least eight Senate Democrats to clear the chambers higher 60-vote threshold. Republicans believe that Schumer would come under heavy pressure from his own colleagues to avoid being blamed for a shutdown, GOP aides said.

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Delaying a broader debate on government funding into 2018 would cheer conservatives, who have been dreading a massive year-end spending package that includes a fix for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Republicans also want to complete work on a massive $5 trillion tax bill before taking on another fight.

But it also raises the likelihood of an ugly shutdown battle just before the holiday season.

Many Democrats have vowed to withhold their votes from any spending agreement that does not include a fix for the young undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors. Democratic leadership sources have suggested that Pelosi and Schumer could back a one- or two-week CR. But theyre loath to move the deadline past Jan. 1.

Still, Democrats may come under pressure to avoid a government shutdown over DACA, which does not fully expire until March. One House Appropriations Committee Democratic source said there could be some wiggle room in the partys stance on DACA that could help avert a shutdown. The source speculated that while many Democrats are dead-set against a full-year spending package without an immigration deal, there may be fewer who would object to a CR into January.

There are a lot of questions that would determine how Democrats vote, the source said. "DACA is one, but theres also the question of the supplemental. Theres the question of a [spending] caps deal.

At the same time, Ryan and other GOP leaders have for weeks resisted the idea of a stopgap bill through January.

"This is something the speaker feels strong about," leadership ally Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told POLITICO on Monday night. "A CR and sequester for the military is not a way to begin the New Year.

But that stance is shifting as Dec. 8 when the government runs out of money approaches and the GOP remains laser-focused on its tax bill.

Democratic leaders refusal to show up at the White House for spending talks Tuesday, after Trump insulted them on Twitter, has also solidified a GOP desire to consider a more hard-line strategy.

"Im very disappointed that Democrats abandoned the field with a shutdown looming. I think thats irresponsible, said Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), a longtime spending panel member who often works with Democrats on funding matters. "If the Democrats won't even talk, theyre the ones who are going to cause a shutdown."

Asked about the new strategy, Ryans office downplayed the notion that it has settled on a new GOP-only approach, arguing that everything is still in flux.

No plan has been decided on, said Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong. Assuming Democrats are interested in talking with congressional leadership and the White House, talks will continue.

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The left is far from alone in its resistance to a CR through January. GOP defense hawks such as House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry of Texas abhor the idea of funding the military on a temporary basis and often complain that the lack of budget certainty cripples the nations readiness.

However, Defense Secretary James Mattis, who also attended the White House meeting Tuesday, plans to talk to defense hawks to try to make them more comfortable with the plan. GOP leadership is also going to try to win over defense hawks by promising more spending for the military if they wait until January, perhaps even higher than the nearly $603 billion currently being considered, according to one House GOP source.

GOP leaders could also encounter resistance from moderate Republicans representing Hispanic-heavy districts. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said he would vote against any government funding bill past December that doesnt include a solution for Dreamers.

Im announcing today that I will not support any appropriations bill that funds the government beyond Dec. 31 unless we get this DACA issue resolved," Curbelo said at a panel on immigration reform in Florida held by the pro-immigrant business group IMPAC Fund and the University of Miami.

At the same time, a longer stopgap spending bill would be applauded by conservatives. Members of the House Freedom Caucus and Republican Study Committee have been urging Ryan not to create a new deadline right before Christmas, fearful that it would cripple the GOPs leverage and lead to the right getting steamrolled on immigration.

If we have to do a CR, we prefer January rather than Christmas, Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Wednesday morning.

The lawmakers who actually have to write spending bills would also prefer a stopgap that stretches into January, as it would give them more time to work on a bigger appropriations package to fund the government.

Eliana Johnson contributed to this report.

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Tammy Patrick is a Senior Advisor to the Elections program at the Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people. Focusing on modern elections, Tammy helps lead the Democracy Funds efforts to foster a voter-centric elections system and work to provide election officials across the country with the tools and knowledge they need to best serve their voters.

Previously, Tammy served as a Democracy Project Fellow with the Bipartisan Policy Center, focusing on discussion on recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA). Former Federal Compliance Officer for Maricopa County Elections Department for eleven years, Tammy was tasked with serving more than 1.9 million registered voters in the greater Phoenix Valley. She collaborates with community and political organizations to create a productive working relationship with the goal of voter participation. In May of 2013 she was selected by President Obama to serve as a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration which has led to the position at the Bipartisan Policy Center to further the work of the PCEA.

The organizer of the 2007 Native American Voter Outreach Summit, Tammy is dedicated to voter education, outreach, and empowerment. She continued this work with the Election Assistance Commissions working group on Language Assistance for Unwritten Languages, and shared her experience with Voting Rights Act minority language compliance in 2011 by presenting at the Pacific Northwest Election Administrators Conference. She was formerly responsible for the Election Departments Voting Rights Act Section 5 submissions to the United States Department of Justice.

Her efforts in supporting good stewardship via sound data collection and analysis has afforded her inclusion in the Princeton Press publication The Democracy Index by Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken, a position on the Pew Advisory Board for an Elections Performance Index, and on the Advisory Board for the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. Tammy was honored to represent Maricopa County and the State of Arizona by testifying in Congress in 2007 on the role of election audits. She has served on the Election Centers National Task Force on Education and Training, their Election Administration Benchmarking Task Force, as well as their Legislative Committee. In the Spring of 2017 she began teaching Data Analysis for Election Administration at the University of Minnesotas Humphrey School.

She was appointed by the Election Center in 2012 to represent them on the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) to the United States Post Office and serves on the Postal Task Force for the Election Center and as an auxiliary member to the EAC Standards Board Postal Task Force and the Postal Task Force for the Washington Secretary of State. In 2016 she presented at the National Postal Forum and also became the only non-postal employee to present to their operational leadership team with her Delivering Democracy webinar. Publication of The New Realities in Election Mail by the Bipartisan Policy Center focuses attention on the PCEA recommendations in the current postal environment.

Arizona was the first state to offer online voter registration and Tammy has collected data and worked with the Brennan Center for Justice as well as the Pew Election Initiatives to study its effect. Tammy has testified in the United States Senate on the importance of modernization of voter registration as well as more than a dozen state legislatures. She has shared the data supporting modernization with election officials around the country who have used it to support passage of similar legislation in their own states and has been presented to the National Conference of State Legislatures at their National Conferences as well as at the Pew-sponsored Voting in America Summits.

Working to provide access to all voters, including those serving our country in the military or residing overseas, Tammy was an active observer for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act which passed in July of 2010. Her analysis of UOCAVA voting populations was presented to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee at the National Institute of Science and Technology in July of 2011; UOCAVA Voter Trend Analysis and Risk Assessment reviews what characteristics of the UOCAVA voter make them most susceptible to casting ineffective ballots, and if access to online information and process aid in mitigating those vulnerabilities. Her experiences are further shared with the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) working group on electronic voting. The Council of State Governments (CSG) established a Policy Working Group to review the PCEA recommendations on UOCAVA voters and Tammy was an active participant in that group. She published Clarion Call: Voter Registration Modernization in CSGs 2015 Book of the States.

In 2012, Tammy was asked to join the IEEE P1622 group developing standards for a common data format for election results reporting. In 2013, she became a voting member of that organization and continues with the work now under the EAC VVSG working group. Her interest in voting technology includes participation in the Overseas Vote Foundations End to End Verified Internet Voting (E2EVIV) project and the Election Verification Network. She has presented numerous times to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) on the impact of their standards and certification of equipment and test laboratories.

Tammy is responsible for many award-winning programs including the expansion of the Voter Assistance and Boardworker Enhancement Training Program which won a National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award in 2005, and another in 2006. The Voter Language Assistance Proficiency Assurance Program was also recognized in 2006 with a Best in Category Award in the County Administration and Management Category. The Election Reporting System developed in Maricopa County was awarded not only a NACo Achievement Award, but also the Election Centers Professional Practice Award in 2007, and was recognized as one of the Top 50 Innovations in Government by the Harvard Kennedy School of Governments Ash Institute which also honored the program with a Bright Idea Award. Maricopa Countys Voter Assistance Website was awarded a 2008 NACo Achievement Award for its accessibility to voters, and their Disaster Recovery Plan received a National Association County Recorders Election Officials and Clerks Best Practices Award in 2009. Her dedication earned her the ADA Liberty Patriot Award in 2008 by the AZ Disability Advocacy Coalition.

Tammy has a bachelors degree in American Studies from Purdue University and has attained accreditation as a Certified Election Voter Registration Administrator through the Election Center and Auburn University.

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Mother: Dorothy (Howell) Rodham

Children: Chelsea

Education: Wellesley College, B.A., 1969; Yale University Law School, J.D., 1973

Religion: Methodist

Other Facts:Hillary and Bill Clinton met in the Yale Law Library in the early 1970s.

The first former First Lady to be elected to the US Senate and to hold a federal cabinet-level position.

Timeline:1964 - Works on the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.

1968 - Switches to the Democratic Party and campaigns for Eugene McCarthy.

1970 - Works as a summer intern for civil rights lawyer Marian Wright Edelman.

1973-1974 - Works as an attorney for the Children's Defense Fund.

January 1974 - Begins working for John Doar, the special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, who is in charge of the inquiry in to the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

August 1974 - Moves to Arkansas to teach at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

1974-1977 - Director of Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

1974-1977 and 1979-1980 - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

1976-1992 - Attorney at Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas. Is named partner in 1979.

1978 - Bill Clinton is elected governor of Arkansas. Hillary Clinton continues to work at Rose Law Firm, making her the first First Lady of Arkansas to continue working while her husband is governor.

1979 - Governor Clinton appoints her chairperson of the Rural Health Advisory Committee, whose members deal with the issue of providing health care in isolated areas.

1980 - Governor Clinton loses the 1980 gubernatorial election. He returns to office in 1982, and is re-elected in 1984, 1986 and 1990.

1983 - Governor Clinton appoints his wife to head the Arkansas Education Standards Committee.

1988 and 1991 - Hillary Clinton is named one of the 100 most influential US lawyers by the National Law Journal.

1992 - Bill Clinton is elected president.

January 1993 - The president names Clinton to lead the Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

September 28, 1993 - Testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee in support of President Clinton's health care package. The health care reform bill is later defeated by Congress.

September 20, 2000 - Independent counsel Robert Ray announces that the evidence found in the Whitewater case is insufficient to prove that the Clintons knowingly participated in any criminal conduct.

November 7, 2000 - Is elected to the US Senate with 56% of the vote.

February 13, 2001 - Makes her first address on the floor of the Senate.

June 9, 2003 - Releases her memoir, "Living History." The book sells over 200,000 copies on its first day of release.

November 7, 2006 - Clinton is re-elected for a second term.

January 20, 2007 - Announces she is creating an exploratory committee for the 2008 presidential race.

January 8, 2008 - Wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 39% of the vote.

August 27, 2008 - Clinton is formally nominated as a candidate for president at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. She receives 341 votes before interrupting the roll call to ask that Obama be nominated by acclamation.

January 23, 2013 - Secretary Clinton testifies for more than five hours before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

October 22, 2015 - Clinton testifies for 11 hours before the congressional panel investigating the attacks on a US mission in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the deaths of four Americans.

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