Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith, a labor attorney, has not been impressed by the G.O.P.'s Contract with America, which he says hurts working-class families. He has seen, he says, bewilderment in the eyes of people who have been thrown out of their jobs into bankruptcy and envisions a trim government that can protect the economic rights of average people against powerful interests and corporations. With the right funding, Smith is convinced he can return the Fifth to the Democratic column...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Americans have been frightened by the Contract with America because...it fails to honor important existing obligations. It threatens our elderly, our children and our sick...
Roberts, called "the aggie" because of his focus on farm issues, is an eight-term incumbent whose Republican roots stretch back to the '50s--when his father was Republican National Committee chairman. Still calling himself an Eisenhower Republican, Roberts also supports all the planks of the Contract with America except term limits...
...choice this year, as Hancock, a high-achieving, pro-choice, pro-gun control Democrat faces off against Vince Snowbarger, an archetype of conservatism. But in the only district in Kansas that went for Clinton in 1992, she's hoping to attract moderate Republicans who are put off by the Contract with America and what she sees as the "extremist" nature of her opponent's politics...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Medicare is the real Contract with America, and Gilchrest and Gingrich have no right to break it. And they won't if I have anything to do with...