Word: minimum
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...eight children raised by a single mom on welfare, she emancipated herself at age 15. She faces another challenge in unseating popular incumbent Dan Burton in the most Republican district in Indiana. Dillard-Trammell hopes to do that by defending Social Security, the Brady Bill, education funding and minimum-wage increases, but parts with the Democrats in her stands against abortion and gay rights...
Despite his firm opposition to two G.O.P. priorities--the balanced-budget amendment and term limits--Hostettler is a strict conservative who opposes gay rights and gun control, as well as the minimum wage. As a freshman member of the National Security Committee, he often criticized Clinton defense cuts. But he can't take his seat for granted in a district that gave Clinton a narrow 3% victory over Bush...
...made his way to Washington for grad school, then served as an aide to then-Eighth District Representative Frank McCloskey. He now wants back in the Capitol as a Congressman. A founder of a local community task force, Citizens for Seniors, Weinzapfel is a defender of Medicare, a healthy minimum wage and accessible health care. He's an underdog, but upsets seem to be a tradition in the "Bloody Eighth," which sent four different Congressmen to Washington...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "To encourage individuals to work, we have to make work more attractive. Increasing the minimum wage is a step in making work a better alternative...
Blute's moderate voting record has earned him a solid base of support in the historically Democratic Third District. He broke party ranks to support the Brady Bill, the minimum-wage hike and the Family and Medical Leave Act, but maintains his fiscal conservatism by working for a balanced-budget amendment and requiring a three-fifths "supermajority" to raise taxes...