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McGovern is a former congressional aide seeking his own seat in Congress. His No. 1 priority is to ensure safe neighborhoods by extending President Clinton's six-year plan to put 100,000 cops on U.S. streets and giving communities four extra years of government funding before they must pay the new salaries on their own. McGovern's plan also includes funding for full-time truant officers and a ban on "cop-killer" bullets. To help the children of the Third, he vows to make all schools computer-friendly...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There has been fundamental change to the way Washington works...Powerful committee chairmen are limited to six-year tenures. House rules have made it tougher to raise taxes...
...scion of Corning Glass and one of the wealthiest members of Congress, Houghton brings a decidedly businesslike mien--and a moderate Republican voice--to Capitol Hill. As a member of the influential Ways and Means Committee, he helped craft a six-year balanced-budget plan. But he's not an advocate of wholesale cuts, and fought to save the National Endowment for the Arts and funding for public television...
...country is "in a state of moral and financial decay" and that something must be done to increase workers' earnings. Jacob also considers campaign reform among his highest priorities: he advocates requiring that all campaign money be raised in the candidate's district, that pacs be abolished and a six-year term limit on House members be imposed...
...six-year Kenosha city councilwoman, Spottswood wants to become Wisconsin's first woman in Congress as well. A pro-choice advocate who works for domestic-violence awareness, she supports the assault-weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and wants to protect educational programs like Head Start and student loans. G.O.P. freshman Mark Neumann may be vulnerable here, where voters re-elected Democrat Les Aspin 11 times...