Word: kassebaum
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...Clinton's response on the issue of presidential pardons and exclaimed, "Now what does that mean?" USA Today tracked the minute-by-minute responses of 148 voters in St. Louis, Missouri, and reported that they felt most favorable about Clinton when he praised health insurance guarantees in the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, and liked Dole best when he called the U.S. "the greatest country on the face of the earth." A woman on the street, interviewed by CNN, said Dole "just seemed snippy last night." Someone writing in to the WELL, an online bulletin-board service, said Dole's worst moments...
...gassed 5,000 Kurds and was threatening his neighbors, Dole thought first and exclusively about his farmer constituents. He was one of the few Senators who urged that Baghdad not be punished with trade sanctions for its brutality, a stance that caused his Kansas Republican colleague, Senator Nancy Kassebaum, to say she could "not believe that any [American] farmer would want to send his product ... to a country that has used chemical weapons and has tortured its children...
...deficit four years in row for the first time since before the Civil War." Said Clinton has put more troops in action than any other American president. Said Clinton's administration is one that "gave you a very big tax cut." UNLIKELY HEROES: Al D'Amato, Nancy Kassebaum, John McCain, Warren Rudman, 500 economists and 7 Nobel laureates. George McGovern, Abe Ribicoff, Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Robert Byrd, Landell Shakespeare. STOCK PHRASES: "21st century"--At least 16 times "Taxes" or "Clinton tax increase"--28 times 10.5 million new jobs--7 times "Liberal" or "liberal elite"--13 times, including...
Dole has almost always worked with Senator Nancy Kassebaum, especially to assist Kansas industries like wheat growers and small-airplane manufacturers. But Dole broke with his fellow Republican--and endangered the health-care legislation she left last month as her legacy--by looking after the interest of a Dole Inc. supporter, Golden Rule Insurance of Indianapolis. Golden Rule was pushing medical savings accounts, which allow people with high-deductible insurance plans to set up tax-favored savings accounts to use for their health-care expenses. Dole's amendment, which would have cost the Treasury $1.8 billion over seven years...
...ROBERTS Republican--Kansas A self-described "Eisenhower Republican," Roberts continues the string of Kansas G.O.P. Senators dating back to 1939. In a landslide victory, he retained retiring Senator Nancy Kassebaum's seat...