Word: bans
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...loopholes for special interests and to encourage investment by indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and by improving the tax treatment of IRAs. On crime, he wants to abolish parole for violent offenders and try as adults juveniles who commit violent crimes. He also supports an amendment to ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the woman's life is in danger...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On the partial-birth-abortion ban] "Some have argued that it is necessary to outlaw a procedure they consider inhumane. But to prohibit its use even in those rare and unfortunate circumstances when it is necessary is even more inhumane...
...neighborhoods by extending President Clinton's six-year plan to put 100,000 cops on U.S. streets and giving communities four extra years of government funding before they must pay the new salaries on their own. McGovern's plan also includes funding for full-time truant officers and a ban on "cop-killer" bullets. To help the children of the Third, he vows to make all schools computer-friendly...
...been remarkable: despite a 50-point lead in the polls, he lost the primary by 266 votes, lost a recount by 175 votes, then, according to a judge, citing errors made in faulty ballot scanners, won by 108 votes. Supporting abortion rights, Head Start and the assault-weapons ban, Delahunt hopes to win the seat of 24-year incumbent Gerry Studds--preferably, in a more conventional...
...term Conyers has used his position as a member of the Judiciary Committee to burnish a reputation as a hard-nosed Democrat while cultivating moderate approaches to crime. He helped get $4 billion for crime prevention in 1994 and pushed for the assault-weapons ban. In this Democratic district, Conyers makes for a formidable incumbent...