But when reporters noted that there were recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate as well, she replied: "Oh, please.

At the same time, as historian Richard H. Abbott observed, Tod also "battled with recalcitrant Democrats, unruly newspaper editors, draft rioters, and strange secret societies".

But the Republicans will face two obstacles: recalcitrant Democrats in Congress and a hostile, liberal national press corps.

But these aides said the potential deals outlined here would show recalcitrant Democrats in the House of Representatives how much the United States has to gain from pushing other nations to drop trade barriers.

They kept the Senate meeting late tonight to make recalcitrant Democrats pay a price for the fight.

Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen spent most of the day in the Capitol, meeting with recalcitrant Democrats.

As the White House saw it, this was to have been the week in which Republicans seized the advantage by pushing two antiterrorism bills through Congress over the objections of recalcitrant Democrats.

Once Americans see that kind of progress from Mr. Bush, they will press even the most recalcitrant Democrats to recognize his presidency as legitimate.

She sketched a vision of President Bush storming away from recalcitrant Democrats at the budget summit meeting and taking his case to the people, a vision grand, defiant, Reaganesque.

The real problem, he told reporters while flying to Ohio, is recalcitrant Democrats who "have not come forward with a package" even after the White House took "political heat" for agreeing to consider new taxes.