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...Contract with America, Uldrich combines G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
Nelson is another of the Midwestern Democrats who enjoy broad bipartisan support--so much so that Cornhuskers made him their first re-elected Governor in two decades. He says his experience as a successful state administrator, creating programs in health policy and rural development, would serve him well in the Senate, where his priorities would be education, the environment and the economy...
Though until this past July Keefe had one of the most partisan jobs in the state--chairing its Democratic Party--he says he'd work for bipartisan cooperation in Congress. He's running on a moderate platform, proposing a liberal pension-strengthening plan, and $50 billion in federal spending cuts and increased taxes for corporations, as well as a $500-per-child tax credit and a deduction of up to $10,000 per child for college...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "With an additional bipartisan effort to make welfare reform work, we will in time be able to look back on 1996 as the year we began to end welfare as we know...
...searing wit, plump figure and distinctive residence (he lives on a houseboat on the Potomac named Unsinkable II--after Unsinkable I, which sank). He sits on the International Relations Committee, and pays a great deal of attention to foreign policy. This summer, the otherwise liberal Ackerman introduced a controversial bipartisan bill to require states to test newborns for HIV if their mothers had not been tested while pregnant...