Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES I was disappointed in your item "Who Says There's No Difference Among the Candidates?" [CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK, Oct. 7], giving sketchy coverage to other parties' candidates for President. You included certain platform information without any development because you thought it would be entertaining. That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke...
...elected by a landslide. The former police officer now sits on the prestigious Rules Committee, the watchdog for all House members. A deficit hawk, he made headlines as a freshman for sleeping on a sofa in his office to save taxpayers' money. He also supports the line-item veto and term limits and sponsored a 1995 program to provide lab and computer equipment to schools...
...University of Colorado board of regents, Kelley stresses his commitment to education, opposes cuts in Head Start and student loans and says defense spending can be reduced to pay for it. Better than a balanced-budget amendment, he says, is the line-item veto, which will let the President cut pork from spending bills. A welfare recipient as a child, Kelley opposed the welfare-reform bill passed this summer...
...will be his first home as a newlywed. A native north Floridian, he believes Corrine Brown's narrow 1994 victory won't sustain her in the newly drawn Third--the district is 11.5% less black and as much as 20% more Republican than in 1994. Fields supports the line-item veto, reforms to cut taxes and make the tax code simpler and more equitable, and a balanced budget...
...aide to former minority leader Robert Michael, who served in the House from 1956 until he retired in 1994, LaHood rode Michael's coattails into office. A moderate like his former boss, he supports a balanced-budget amendment, the line-item veto and abortion limits. But he distinguished himself in his first term as one of few freshman Republicans who opposed parts of the Contract with America...