Word: cleaning
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Vento hopes the Fourth District, which hasn't elected a G.O.P. Congressman since 1948, will stick with tradition and give him an 11th term this fall. The former science teacher has been at the forefront of environmental issues, favoring taxes on high-level energy users, stronger clean-water and clean-air laws and increasing fees charged to companies that mine on public lands. Vento got a scare in 1994, when Dennis Newinski made a strong showing for the seat...
...Contract with America, Uldrich combines G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Frank LoBiondo and his Republican Congress want to cut back on every environmental law...just when we can finally see through to our beautiful ocean, walk on clean beaches and breathe fresh...
Although essentially a mainstream Republican, Saxton has split with many in his party by voting often in favor of gun control and environmental protection. He once tried to stop G.O.P. efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act and called on President Clinton to stop the dumping of dredged silt off the New Jersey coast. This formula has increased his margin of victory in each of the past three elections, making the well-financed Saxton a formidable incumbent...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "[A] clean environment creates jobs...