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Roemer is a centrist Democrat who does not toe the party line. As an economic conservative, he supports a balanced-budget amendment and is a hawk on legislative pork. But he shows his Democratic roots by backing federal education programs like the Pell Grant and Head Start. Already thrice victorious in the Third, Roemer seems to have found a moderate voice to suit his district...
Latham, who represents a district with more than 18,000 sq. mi. of the nation's most fertile soil, told voters he would take his rural values to Washington. He calls himself a "progressive conservative"; as a deficit hawk, he was named a Taxpayer's Hero by the Council for the Citizens Against Government Waste. You can even check the national debt's growth on Latham's Website www.house.gov/latham)...
Ramstad is looking for a fourth term to continue tackling the deficit: in 1996 he was rated the No. 1 deficit hawk in the House by the National Taxpayers' Union. A recovering alcoholic, he sponsored a bill in August to fund a $3 million study on alcoholism, and often speaks on the subject. A long-time politico, he met President John F. Kennedy in 1963 at the same, now famous Rose Garden ceremony attended by a young Bill Clinton...
...last time Skelton lost even one county in his district was during the Reagan landslide of 1984. But Skelton won that race, and has won every one since with at least 62% of the vote. A deficit hawk with a knack for winning defense dollars, he successfully fought to bring the Army Engineer Center to Fort Leonard Wood...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I represent the traditions of New Jersey..., being a fiscal hawk in spending taxpayers' dollars as carefully as they spend their own paychecks...