Word: contract
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "The Republican Contract [with America] doesn't serve the people in this area...Why give a tax cut when you don't have the money to balance the budget? I will go to Washington and protect jobs and money for education and farmers...
Swett, a moderate, was the first Democrat to win the Second District House seat in 78 years, in 1990. While a member of the House--before being beaten by the Second's current Representative, Charles Bass--he co-authored the Congressional Accountability Act, the first Contract with America law passed by the 104th Congress. An unusual campaigner, in his bid for the Senate Swett has spent days working jobs from lobsterman to factory worker to Dunkin' Donuts employee in order to get to know his constituents...
BORN: Nov. 4, 1938, Philadelphia EDUCATION: La Salle U, B.S., 1967; Temple U, M.P.A., 1991 FAMILY: Wife, Celeste; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army Reserve, 1960-61, 1961-66; Army, 1961 OCCUPATION: University contract specialist POLITICAL CAREER: Republican candidate for mayor of Bellmawr, 1994; Republican candidate for New Jersey Senate, 1995 ADDRESS: 323 Anthony Drive, Bellmawr...
...collar Democrats and an enclave of wealthy liberals make Forbes vulnerable. But he retains his conservative base with proposals to end parole for armed criminals and grant middle-class tax breaks. On the Armed Services Committee he has fought for defense-conversion jobs to ease the pain of military-contract cutbacks...
Representing Manhattan's ritzy Silk Stocking district, Maloney is a tenacious, resilient legislator. Realizing that more than $50 billion was owed to the Federal Government (about $20.5 billion in student loans), she sponsored the Debt Collection Improvement Law of 1996 and joined other Congresswomen to draft a "Women's Contract with America." She has also gone toe to toe with the N.R.A...