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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...
Incumbent Domenici, who once pitched for the Albuquerque Dukes, won his past two elections with 72% and 73% of the vote, and is favored to win his sixth term just as handily. In the Senate he has made his name as a deficit hawk, sitting on his powerful perch as chairman of the Budget Committee, and he clashes even with fellow Republicans when their proposals to cut taxes--especially the capital-gains tax--would stand in the way of a balanced budget...
...this seat since 1980, Dreier has been a guiding but moderating voice in the Republican revolution. He fought to streamline Congress as co-vice chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and has burnished his reputation as a red-tape hawk by overhauling the House committee system for Newt Gingrich--something that had not been done in 50 years...
...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...