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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Just like that four-year-old child with a sweet tooth, the Republicans are at it again, reaching back in that cookie jar, trying to grab Medicare cuts, Medicaid cuts, education cuts. Tax cuts for the wealthy is what they are going to balance it with...
...this race. But that hasn't prevented Cole from issuing position papers on everything from the budget to health care: he is "pro-children," advocates a federal school-lunch program, says that every public school student must be able to read by third grade and believes that Medicare and Medicaid can be streamlined...
Since his election, Boucher has defeated three G.O.P. challengers with ease. In 1994, when Republicans stormed the rest of the House, he still won with an impressive 59% of the vote. Boucher supports Head Start, Medicare and Medicaid, but--and this could explain his ability to defeat Republicans--opposes gun control and punitive tobacco legislation. Not considered "one of the boys" in his rural district, he nevertheless has his Hill colleagues' respect for his expertise on--and connections to--the telecommunications industry...
BUDGET. House and Senate: Would you have voted for the budget-reconciliation bill aimed at balancing the federal budget by fiscal year 2002? The bill had provisions reducing expected federal spending $894 billion over seven years, including major restraints on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare spending, and cutting expected tax revenue $245 billion. [H/S: HR2491. Passed, H vote: 237-189; S vote...
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...