81.  Democrats said the vote was a political ploy, because the Senate has repeatedly blocked the Republican plan.

82.  Democrats are deliberately trying to frighten senior citizens by telling them they will pay for Medicare health coverage or lose benefits under Republican plans, Gingrich said.

83.  Democrats argued that the Republican plan was fiscally irresponsible, of no help to the economy and unfairly tilted toward the rich.

84.  Democrats hope their relentless attacks on the Republican plan will galvanize the elderly and sway enough GOP defectors to derail the reforms.

85.  Democrats repeatedly failed in their efforts to set detailed federal standards for such private health plans, which would serve millions of elderly people under the Republican plan.

86.  Dole also returned to the Hill and convened a brief session of the Senate, where he attempted to introduce the Republican plan to bring back the workers.

87.  Democratic congressional leaders joined Clinton in attacking Republican plans.

88.  Democrats argued that the Republican plan would gut benefit programs like Medicare and would neuter federal initiatives on issues like environmental protection that have broad support.

89.  Democrats were also upset that the Republican plan did not explicitly rule out the chance for senators to introduce a so-called finding of fact motion.

90.  Eddie said that Democratic attacks on Republican plans to change Medicare had alarmed elderly voters in Iowa.