Is common ground still possible? Biden determined to try with Senate.
Posted on AllSides January 19th, 2021
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ANALYSIS
It’s one of President-elect Joe Biden’s favorite anecdotes about his formative years in the Senate.
Not long into his 36-year career there, the young Senator Biden was greatly disturbed to hear conservative GOP Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina excoriate Sen. Bob Dole’s Americans with Disabilities Act.
“I can’t believe anyone could be so heartless, and care so little about people with disabilities,” Senator Biden told Democratic majority leader Mike Mansfield at the time. “It makes me angry.”
Senator Mansfield replied with a story. Several years before, Senator Helms...
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