Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "We inherited a clean and beautiful country. I want to do my best to pass it on unspoiled to our grandchildren...
McIntosh, for seven years an aide to Reagan and Bush, has backed bills to streamline safety regulations for home construction and loosen clean-air and endangered-species rules. A shoving incident on a flight in May resulted in assault-and-battery charges (later dropped), but the "misunderstanding," as McIntosh calls it, is not expected to hurt his chances next week, in this Republican district...
...added support of the district's labor unions. He promises to stop "corporate welfare," reward companies that are good to employees, and fight balanced-budget plans that take entitlements and quality public education away from blue-collar voters. He's pro-environment and vows vigilance on the Clean Water, Clean Air and Clean Harbor acts...
Dingell has served 41 continuous years in the House, more than any other member. The 6 ft., 3 in. lawyer, called "Big John" and "the Grand Inquisitor," is the ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee. Dingell is basically liberal but favors aggressive foreign policy, a weaker Clean Air Act--to protect his district's automakers--and a reduction in trial lawyers' leverage in product-liability suits...
...landslide. Home schooled as a child because he had severe asthma, he holds a doctorate in nuclear physics from Berkeley, and in his first term worked to update the House's computers and Internet access. Ehlers has also written two books on the environment and served on the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee...