This is all part of a Democratic effort to win first-time voters and get them to the polls.

Republicans generally see no reason to increase spending, and say they will oppose Democratic efforts to relax work requirements or time limits.

In the end, the Democratic efforts to pay for the agency were defeated on a voice vote.

He was not a part of the Democratic effort.

A Democratic effort to force a vote was defeated, but by only 10 votes.

Republican leaders have already said they expected the new Democratic effort to be blocked.

The money raised tonight was to be used to finance the Democratic effort to take control of the House, focusing on 50 or so races.

One involves Democratic efforts to make the rules and committee procedures more efficient.

The biggest difference was on the political heart of the Democratic effort to portray themselves in an election year as friends of the middle class.

"We went door to door, it was an old-fashioned Democratic effort."