Word: minimum
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Sweetser, a moderate, is for a balanced-budget amendment, school vouchers and the minimum-wage hike. Once a victim of violent crime, Sweetser sponsored Vermont's Crime Victims' Bill of Rights, which, among other things, lets victims testify without their attacker's being present. Sweetser won handily in her state Senate races, but taking on the popular Bernie Sanders is another campaign...
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...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "[A minimum-wage increase] is going to pass, and people are going to pat themselves on the back for it. What's lost in this debate on how we really raise wages. This is a short-term political ploy...
...Gordon narrowly 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...