Word: contract
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...moderate Morella is a G.O.P. maverick who voted against seven Contract with America provisions, three more than any other Republican; she consistently gets higher ratings from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action than from the American Conservative Union. Mother to nine children--six of whom are her sister's, raised by Morella after her sister died--Morella is also co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
Chrysler, elected as a supporter of the Contract with America, sponsored bills to cut House committees and staff by a third. He pushed unsuccessfully to eliminate the Commerce Department and last spring proposed replacing income and capital-gains taxes with a 15% federal sales tax. The Democrats think Chrysler is vulnerable; the Eighth was represented by a Democrat for 12 years before he was elected...
Running against a popular incumbent who reviles the 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...
...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
Boyd, who decided to run for office after watching President Clinton's State of the Union speech, is staunchly opposed to the Contract with America and what he considers the agenda of the G.O.P. freshmen, which he believes fails to address the needs of farmers, the working class and the poor. He has the perfect opponent in Roger Wicker, the first president of the Republican class of 1994 and a vocal Contract advocate...