Word: vetoes
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...aide to former minority leader Robert Michael, who served in the House from 1956 until he retired in 1994, LaHood rode Michael's coattails into office. A moderate like his former boss, he supports a balanced-budget amendment, the line-item veto and abortion limits. But he distinguished himself in his first term as one of few freshman Republicans who opposed parts of the Contract with America...
Whitfield, a former state Representative, switched parties in 1994 to run against incumbent Tom Barlow--and won. He became the first Republican to represent the district, whose 31 counties are almost all Democratic. In the House, Whitfield supported a balanced-budget amendment and a line-item veto. He denies that the Republicans want to cut Medicare and that he is a clone of Newt Gingrich...
...pounced on the chance to fill this seat when 36-year incumbent Edward Boland retired in 1988. Eight years later, with a Capitol Hill reputation for working effectively behind the scenes, he sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He voted for medical leave and the line-item veto but, to protect his district's medical-service industries, balked at the President's 1993 health-care plan...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The people I represent wanted wasteful spending cut. They wanted the budget brought into balance. So I became the lead sponsor of the bill to give the President the line-item veto...
...debate over the recently enacted Defense of Marriage Act, Frank's eloquent support of same-sex unions might have been politically dangerous if he hadn't already earned a reputation as a superb legislator. A popular liberal, he opposed the balanced-budget amendment, the line-item veto and the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and in 1994 was unopposed...