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...selected 11 on which to poll candidates. Incumbents' responses are based on actual votes. Challengers were asked by questionnaire how they would have voted on each. Those questions (and the congressional votes they are based on) are presented below. Unless otherwise noted, all votes took place in 1995. An asterisk following a response indicates that an incumbent changed his or her vote on a similar bill this past summer...
...after work, and they could have been home relaxing, watching TV, helping with homework, but instead they got in the van and drove on the highway to stand and cheer for a man who they knew would give a bad speech and who in a week would be an asterisk in a boring book...
...plans' ambition, the absence of hard numbers continues to loom over Republicans like a giant, baleful asterisk. Democrats maintain that when the Congressional Budget Office adds the figures in, they will fall far short of the magic, budget-balancing $270 billion. Critics are especially scornful of Gingrich's claim that $70 billion would be generated merely from seniors voluntarily joining HMOS...
...U.W.S.A. members convene in Dallas for what Perot calls "the political event of the century," the question of a new party will be buried in a small Sunday workshop, from which the press will be barred. By then, many u.w.s.a. members will have left. The adventure has become an asterisk...
Frankel, explaining the inspiration for his film, spoke about his own views on marriage. "A lot of people just dive right in. As if marriage were a wonderful next step and there's no asterisk or Surgeon General's warning that this could also be hazardous to your health...