"It would have been higher," she said, "if the Democrats on the Board of Legislators had not protested."

But Democrats on the committee are now protesting that it is unfair to question only the prosecutor and bring forward no witnesses who might rebut him.

Democrats on the committee protested.

Democrats protested that the reforms would apply to fewer than one-third of the 161 million Americans with private insurance.

Democrats protested all day that such hasty disclosure was unfair to the President and irresponsible.

Democrats protested that Nixon exploited racial fears in winning the support of white southerners and northern white ethnics.

But Democrats protested that taxpayers should not have to pay for those visits, saying that the trips were political events.

Startled Democrats protested heatedly, issuing screams, threats, and insults at the Speaker.

Some Democrats protested that he did not go far enough when he failed to propose rolling back part of the tax cut.

But in the meantime, Democrats can protest, as they did in the fights over the budget last spring, that governing is harder than carping about government.