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Hey, Bill! Why no pledge? In August of 1992, an organization of 18 to 30--year-old Americans called "Lead...or Leave" began asking all Congressional and Presidential candidates to do one simple thing: take a pledge to reduce the budget deficit to half of its current level by 1996...
Ross Perot and more than 100 bipartisan Congressional candidates took the "Lead...or Leave" pledge. Even Democratic Sen. Paul E. Tsongas and Republican Sen. Warren B. Rudman endorsed the pledge and the bipartisan "Lead...or Leave" organization. When the new Congress convenes in January, nearly 20 members of Congress will...
More recently still, questioners have asked whether the Democrat's ambitious plans for spending on roads, bridges, job training, welfare reform and other worthy projects would not require a middle-class tax increase to finance. While refusing to make any read-my-lips pledge, Clinton asserts that he will instead...
Continuing his trend of backtracking on promises, the Bush administration reneged on a Bush campaign pledge in 1988 to ensure "no net loss" of wetlands. In order to satisfy developers in search of open land, Bush has proposed a change in definition for wetlands that would greatly restrict the amount...
As unemployment continued to rise in 1992, many Republicans called for the heads of Brady and Darman, whom conservatives held responsible for the breaking of the tax pledge. But Bush defended them. Activist Republicans also called in July and August for Bush to demonstrate powerfully the shift in his attention...