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DeGette vows to fight cuts in Medicare and Social Security, which she calls "contracts with our seniors," and received the Outstanding Legislator Award from the Colorado Senior Lobby for her work on their behalf in the Colorado House. She supports the minimum-wage increase, gun control and a single-payer health-care system. Ardently pro-choice, DeGette sponsored the "bubble bill" during her first term in the Colorado House to help protect access to abortion clinics...
When Obey was elected in 1969, he became the first Democrat to represent the Seventh District. He is now the ranking Democrat on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Still an outspoken liberal, he supported a single-payer healthcare system and is skeptical of balancing the budget on a fixed schedule. But if he wants to keep his seat, he'll have to beat Scott West, who gave Obey a scare...
During the health-care debate, for instance, there was much discussion of Canada's "single-payer" approach. Some contended that it was nothing more than socialized medicine--the much dreaded system that Americans have always identified with such horrors as bureaucrats' having the power to deny treatments and patients' having no choice of doctors...
...didn't feel that way four years ago before I had Sam, when I was making the same amount of money. I thought I was doing pretty damn good. Now it's nothing to get excited about." Lori keeps the household books. "I'm an incredible bill payer," she says, "but a terrible saver." Last week she called her mortgage officers to learn why her monthly house payment rose from $592 to $616, even though interest rates are falling; the answer was higher insurance fees and taxes. After that she socks away $150 every other month into a mutual fund...
Next, the senator proposed that campaigns be financed by a pool of shared tax-payer contributions of between $1 to $5,000 per year, contributions which could then be checked off on tax returns. The shared funds would be divided equally among qualified candidates, whatever their party affiliation...