Word: epa
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...brother Tim, who's running for the Senate. He has constructed his platform along conservative business lines. To stimulate the economy, he would impose a modified flat tax, cut the capital-gains tax at least 50% and judge the worth of federal departments like the FDA and EPA by subjecting them to cost-benefit and risk-benefit analyses. A former U.S. Attorney, he's tough on crime and supports "three-strikes" sentencing, but opposes gun control...
Brown, an orthodox Catholic but unorthodox Republican, says he wants to balance the federal budget through large funding cuts in the EPA, the CIA and the Departments of Energy and Commerce, and smaller ones in welfare, Medicaid and Medicare. He also wants the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations and to "farm out prisoners to third-world countries...
Yellowtail, a member of the Crow tribe, wants to become Montana's first Native American in Congress. He grew up with no running water, no electricity and no telephone. A former EPA administrator, he has also overcome revelations about past indiscretions--being temporarily expelled from Dartmouth for stealing and failing to make child-support payments in the late 1970s--and enjoyed a lead in the polls going into the home stretch...
Mainstream Democrat Long served as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and opposes reductions in the epa budget. In this race, he has had the unusual difficulty of being snubbed by high-profile members of his own party--Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos ignored Long at a state fund raiser--in favor of independent incumbent Bernie Sanders, whom Democratic insiders believe could be vulnerable to Republican Susan Sweetser if Long siphons away too many votes...
Which brings us to our beloved Charles River. For the past few months, the levels of fecal coliform bacteria in the river have been several hundreds of times the levels declared safe for boating by the EPA. There have been several incidents where boaters have reported getting sick...