Word: stabenow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elect Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said most campaigns involve partisan disputes. But members of Congress need to have a more substantive grasp of the day's vital issues, she said...
...understand the politics of Medicare," Stabenow said. "[But] candidates have not had time to sit down and separate themselves from the politics of the issue...
...Stabenow defeated current first-term Republican Rep. Dick Crysler--a member of the "Gingrich Posse"--by opposing Republican budget cuts...
While she is a former state senator, Stabenow said she doesn't know much about navigating the halls of Congress. "The rules are different, the size makes it function more slowly...
...popular former State Senator, Stabenow poses a decent challenge to incumbent Dick Chrysler. She is a moderate, and emphasizes her work on behalf of business. As a Michigan legislator, she sponsored an amendment that scrapped the state's old property-tax system and led to a tax cut, and in the early 1990s she helped strengthen Michigan's drunk-driving laws...