Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...active on four committees. Having shaken the most radical of his liberal urges, Harkin was a co-author of the first bipartisan welfare-reform bill in Congress. But in a state with the largest percentage of citizens over age 85, and the third largest over 65, he promises to protect Medicare...
...labor attorney, has not been impressed by the G.O.P.'s Contract with America, which he says hurts working-class families. He has seen, he says, bewilderment in the eyes of people who have been thrown out of their jobs into bankruptcy and envisions a trim government that can protect the economic rights of average people against powerful interests and corporations. With the right funding, Smith is convinced he can return the Fifth to the Democratic column...
...doctor and minister, Fletcher has spent much of his life giving service. He has fought to make health care affordable and accessible and has volunteered as a medical professor and doctor for the Kentucky Care Program, which provides free medical care to the uninsured. But he promises also to protect the state's tobacco farmers, not necessarily a political problem for a doctor in Kentucky...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I have spent a lifetime building trust with the people of Kentucky. As an Air Force fighter pilot, our nation trusted me to protect its skies during the cold war. As a family physician, people trust me every day to take care of their health...
...politics have remained the same. During his 15-year tenure in the House, he has used his canny Cajun charm and legislative wile to effect change in diverse areas, such as cable and environmental regulation. As a member of the Resources Committee, he has led the conservative charge to protect the rights of property owners and has tended the interest of the state's oil and gas industries...