In putting together his cabinet, President Pierce tried to include men from every group in the Democratic Party.

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The so-called Red Shirts, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship,or UDD, have the backing of the main parliamentary opposition group, the Puea Thai Party.

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Mauritanian representatives for the U.S. -based National Democratic Institute told reporters in Nouakchott that the group will not monitor the June vote because it is a unilateral decision against constitutional order.

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The centrist Democratic group Third Way sent a letter to congressional leaders urging the bipartisan seating.

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Rep. Mike Ross, D-Arkansas, and a key leader of the conservative Democratic group known as the Blue Dogs, told reporters he shares Elmendorf's concerns.

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He has also taken the trouble to endear himself to the Vatican (and to the Christian Democratic group within the government coalition) by these days going more often to mass and by remarrying, in church, his strong-minded journalist wife.

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