Word: veto
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...year career in elective office, the former Governor wants to return to Washington (he says he "got a lot of calls from Democrats" asking him to run) by building on his tried-and-true labor base and co-opting G.O.P. issues like the balanced budget, line-item veto and term limits. Whether he can get the statewide support he'll need is uncertain; he lost his bids for Governor...
Rehberg is running for the Senate by charging directly at incumbent Max Baucus. The state's lieutenant governor says Baucus has moved toward the right in an election-year ploy to earn conservative support, voting for the line-item veto and the balanced-budget amendment, both of which Rehberg also supports. With statewide name recognition, Rehberg should be more challenging than Baucus' 1990 opponent, who lost by 32 points...
...vigorous opponent of the Clinton Administration, Royce nevertheless celebrated the President's signing of the line-item veto as "another arrow in the quiver" in the fight against wasteful Washington spending. That kind of stand is why Royce is co-chairman of the Congressional Pork Busters Coalition, but he has taken fierce G.O.P. stands for victims' rights and against gun control, illegal immigration and taxation...
...former FBI director William Sessions, this self-described "lifelong Republican" has the right family-values image: he is a former eagle scout who claims never to have missed a day of work. Sessions favors term limits and the line-item veto and has pledged to donate his congressional salary to the federal-budget-deficit trust fund any year Congress doesn't meet its balanced-budget goals. With Representative John Bryant (D) leaving to run for the Senate (he lost the primary), this may be Sessions' year...
This popular incumbent requested $871 million in the fiscal 1997 budget for President Clinton's Summer Youth Employment Program, and has supported a 1996 bill to extend the presidential line-item veto to include corporate tax exemptions. In this Democratic district that gave Bill Clinton a 26% margin in 1994, Barrett has a good chance of continuing his liberal program in the 105th Congress...