Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McInnis broke into this previously Democratic district in 1992 and was re-elected by a landslide. The former police officer now sits on the prestigious Rules Committee, the watchdog for all House members. A deficit hawk, he made headlines as a freshman for sleeping on a sofa in his office to save taxpayers' money. He also supports the line-item veto and term limits and sponsored a 1995 program to provide lab and computer equipment to schools...
Blute's moderate voting record has earned him a solid base of support in the historically Democratic Third District. He broke party ranks to support the Brady Bill, the minimum-wage hike and the Family and Medical Leave Act, but maintains his fiscal conservatism by working for a balanced-budget amendment and requiring a three-fifths "supermajority" to raise taxes...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The Social Security System is going to go broke. That is a fact that we all agree on. We disagree as to when. I am making entitlement reform my main issue...
Parrott used to work for Walter Jones but broke with him in a loan dispute and now hints he knows some secrets about his opponent. Still, Parrott says he's not running for spite and won't let personal animus dictate the debate, which he says should focus on education, health care and the environment. He believes that if we could eliminate government fraud and tax breaks for the rich, there would be abundance for the poor, the young and the elderly...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "When the [CIA] was implicated in the death of an American in Guatemala, I broke the silence...and defended a widowed housewife against the American intelligence community...