Word: hiked
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...Democrat in Richmond politics until 1980, when he ran for the House as a Republican, Bliley is now chair of the Commerce Committee. He wants to reduce the committee's legislative power in favor of freer markets and blasted his opponent's proposal to hike tobacco taxes, which he says will cost the district jobs...
Slayton wants government to help improve education, take care of the sick and elderly and protect reproductive rights. But tobacco has been the burning issue in this race: Slayton wants to hike the price of a pack of cigarettes 25%, using $4 of every $5 raised to offset the medical cost of tobacco-related diseases and the rest to fund anti-smoking education for kids. Philip Morris isn't located here, but many of its employees...
Gordon, deriding his high-profile opponent's campaign strategy of stumping in a leased red truck and chewing tobacco, calls himself a fiscal conservative. But he remains a Democrat at heart, supporting a minimum-wage hike and opposing the G.O.P. budget's cuts in education, police, Medicaid and Social Security...
Though many Republican freshmen are vulnerable, Hilleary appears not to be one of them. No ideologue, he supports the Contract with America but voted for the minimum-wage hike, spurred by the district's many low-wage textile jobs. His bill on term limits, the first constitutional-amendment proposal by a freshman to make it to the House floor since 1897, illustrates his commitment to the G.O.P. ideal...
...avoided becoming a casualty of the G.O.P. takeover in 1994; this year he faces Steve Gill again. Gordon, a fiscal conservative who twice voted for a balanced-budget amendment, emphasizes his popular fight against the sale of local lakes to hydroelectric interests and his support for the minimum-wage hike...