Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the reality of deficit spending had not hit me yet, or maybe I was a little unclear on party affiliation. All I knew this that I liked my president, I thought he was articulate, and I thought he should be president again...
Senator Kerry has planted himself at the political center of the Democratic party. He has taken liberal positions as an ardent supporter of environmental protection legislation and a believer in a strong social safety net. However, Kerry was a deficit hawk even before it was in style. As a proponent of balancing the budget in seven years, he has the credentials of a fiscal moderate...
...moderate 11th, Horton, a member of the 1992 Clinton-Gore steering committee, is taking on the Contract with America. He calls the 1994 G.O.P. document a shortsighted approach to deficit cutting that does not expand opportunities for the average Northern Virginia family. Horton has never held public office, but his work on the Council for Excellence in Government may shore him up against a freshman incumbent...
...social moderate and a deficit hawk, White usually votes pro-choice and gets higher ratings from civil-liberties and environmental groups than any other G.O.P. Representative from his state. However, he's strongly committed to a balanced budget and opposes all tax cuts until then. White was a come-from-behind winner against Democrat Maria Cantwell in the 1994 election, but now he has to worry that his opponent, Jeff Coopersmith, will do the same...
Klug won the first-ever 100% rating from Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman's Concord Coalition for his record as a deficit hawk. The former Madison TV news anchor has emerged as another successful Midwestern politician who has taken power with conservative fiscal policies and moderate social ones. He has broken with the G.O.P. to support family leave and health-care legislation, and his formerly liberal constituency has re-elected him twice by a large margin...