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Revision as of 03:21, 23 March 2010
Jim Bates
"Congressional Pink Caucus"
In October 1989 the Nicaraguan Sandinista Government announced that they would no longer comply with the 19 month-old cease-fire agreement with the Contras. This had been considered a prime step forward for the "peace process" that was progressing slowly as part of the Arias Peace Plan.
A resolution was introduced in Congress deploring the Sandinistas' action. The Senate voted unanimously in favor, but in the House the vote was 379-29. All the 29 Congressmen voting against the resolution were Democrats.
The Council for Inter-American Security dubbed these 29 people the "Congressional Pink Caucus":
- Jim Bates (CA)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- William Clay (MO)
- George Crockett (MI)
- Cardiss Collins (IL)
- Peter DeFazio (OR)
- Ron Dellums (CA)
- Mervyn Dymally (CA)
- Don Edwards (CA)
- Lane Evans (IL)
- Floyd Flake (NY)
- Henry Gonzalez (TX)
- Charles Hayes (IL)
- Joseph Kennedy (MA)
- Pete Kostmayer (PA)
- Robert Kastenmeier (WI)
- John Lewis (GA)
- Major Owens (NY)
- Nancy Pelosi (CA)
- Charles Rangel (NY)
- Gus Savage (IL)
- Louis Stokes (OH)
- Gerry Studds (MA)
- Esteban Torres (CA)
- Adolphus Towns (NY)
- Jolene Unsoeld (WA)
- Ted Weiss (NY)
- Alan Wheat (MO)
- Ron Wyden (OR)