Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pease, a former vice president at Indiana State University, won the endorsement of retiring 15-term Representative John Myers. Like Myers, Pease shuns the confrontational G.O.P. style in favor of bipartisanship and doubts the value of the Republican flat tax and consumption-tax proposals. But he believes in giving states control of welfare and Medicaid. Running a safe campaign on the center right, Pease is favored to continue the Republican status quo in the conservative Seventh...
Despite three decades in the House, the race gets harder for this soft-spoken moderate. Hamilton's opponent, Jean Leising, is the same Republican who almost beat him in 1994. But he has held off the conservative surge by supporting a flat or consumption tax, balanced trade, less government regulation and campaign-finance reform...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the [G.O.P. ] flat-tax proposal is that it is being offered at a time when American income inequality is at its highest in decades...
...complete Bill Emerson's term. Adding insult to electoral injury, the state's two G.O.P. Senators have endorsed Emerson's widow. Still, this prickly individualist, who refuses to divulge his birthplace and educational history because they "are not required by the Constitution," has built a platform around Christianity, a flat tax and prayer, which he will surely need in the second (general) election...
...Third is flat, crop-growing Republican country, where Ross Perot gets more votes than Bill Clinton. Barrett won his past two elections handily (in fact, for a while it looked as if he would run unopposed). In this district, where sugar beets are king, Barrett fights for anything that will help farmers (he chairs the General Farm Commodities Subcommittee) and against anything that will hurt them--most recently, the 1997 budget, which would have cut federal spending on agriculture by millions of dollars...