Word: wofford
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...Democrats are hoping that election-eve efforts to drum up fear of GOP Social Security cuts are tailor-made for Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Harris Wofford, who's slipped well behind Republican Rep. Rick Santorum, 35 percent to 46 percent, among likely voters in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/WTAE-TV poll. In a state with an elderly population percentage second only to Florida's, Santorum recently suggested the Social Security retirement age be boosted from 65 to 70 or higher; a Wofford campaign worker videotaped the remark, which is now the centerpiece in a new ad blitz.Post to 1994 Elections...
...races are close in Pennsylvania as well, with incumbent Sen. Harris Wofford's campaign against Republican challenger Rick Santorum too close to call, while Democratic Lt. Governor Mark Singel and Republican challenger Tom Ridge are in a dead heat...
...support Santorum because he is cutting budget spending," said Leo G. Polanowski '98 of Elizabethtown, Penn. "I met Wofford once and he was kind of pompous...
Several liberal lawmakers are trying to frame an incremental reform that would achieve universal health coverage for at least one emotionally important constituency: children. Leading the effort is Wofford, who would provide full government funding to insure all children in families below the poverty line (now $14,764 for a family of four) and would offer partial subsidies sufficient to insure children in families that have incomes perhaps four times more than the poverty level. "It probably wouldn't cover that many more people," says an Administration health expert, "but Congress and the President could...
...Wofford, whose come-from-behind Senate victory in 1991 first identified health care as a hot campaign issue for Bill Clinton, accepts that the public is not ready for major reform this year. But he adds some fighting words. If Congress cannot agree on at least some small step toward health reform this year, he will sponsor a bill to disqualify lawmakers from the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan. "It's simply wrong," Wofford argues, "for members of Congress to have health benefits paid for by their employer -- the taxpayers -- when many of those who actually pay the taxes have...