Word: contract
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...supporter of the Contract with America, Ney proved to be less conservative than many of his G.O.P. freshman classmates. He supports environmental regulation, for instance, and considers himself "sympathetic to labor," both positions consistent with his district's blue-collar, Democratic traditions...
Democrats hope that the same Contract with America that helped Cremeans win two years ago--by just two percentage points--will be his undoing this time around: his economically depressed district may not be as excited about fewer government services. But Cremeans, the son of a coal miner and an opponent of abortion and gay rights, says success depends on the individual, and is hoping his mostly working-class constituents still agree...
After a first term in which he became known more for his outlandish comments about women's anatomy than his legislative acumen, Hoke dodged a bullet in 1994 and hopes to do so again. Though a supporter of the Contract With America, he has gone his own way on bread-and-butter Republican issues like NAFTA, which he opposed, and family medical leave, which he supported...
Taking office in 1994, the conservative Bunn was antiabortion, supported term limits and campaign-finance reform. But he refused to sign the Contract with America because it would cut off aid to unwed mothers under 18, which he believes would encourage abortion. He earned only a 12% rating from the League of Conservation Voters this year, and his support for cutting in old-growth forests has raised tempers in liberal enclaves like Corvallis...
...distinguished freshman-year record may not be enough to get English re-elected. In a blue-collar district that is predictably neither Democratic nor Republican, he fights resistance from the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO for his support of the Contract with America and the G.O.P. plan to reform Medicare. He needs to persuade voters that his loyalty to them outweighs his devotion to a Republican fiscal agenda...