Word: banning
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...third most senior G.O.P. Senator, Stevens is a strong Alaska advocate. In this Congress he co-sponsored a bill to lift the ban on exports of Alaskan oil; he also supports the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the sole link to some of the state's remote areas. Facing a challenger who won only 3.3% of the primary vote--in an open primary with 12 candidates--Stevens is ready for November...
...House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 8766, Pine Bluff 71611. Tel.: 501-536-1221 Dickey, who has won two narrow victories here, takes care not to attack favorite son Bill Clinton on his home turf. The exception to this rule is abortion: Dickey co-sponsored the bill to ban partial-birth abortions, which Clinton vetoed. On local issues, he agrees with Vincent Tolliver in supporting proposed Interstate 69, which would run from Indiana through Arkansas to Texas and be a path of economic growth...
...House majority leader Dick Armey's flat-tax plan or "virtually any other tax cut." A mom who schooled her daughter at home, she favors tuition tax credits that give parents the choice between public, private and home schooling. Miller opposed both the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban...
...five runs for the House, Skaggs has never won with less than 57% of the vote. The Ohio native voted for the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban, and sponsored a bill this year to protect 240,700 acres of state land. He also used his seat on the Appropriations Committee to win funds for the Denver airport...
Wexler is traditionally liberal in many ways: he favors the assault-weapons ban and opposes school prayer and the balanced-budget amendment. However, in his past three years as a state Senator he proposed that chastity and sobriety be taught in public schools and that rapists have their sex drives chemically lowered on the second offense and to allow judges to impose a death sentence on the third--though he has altered his position and now calls for tough sentences instead...