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...Colorado board of regents, Kelley stresses his commitment to education, opposes cuts in Head Start and student loans and says defense spending can be reduced to pay for it. Better than a balanced-budget amendment, he says, is the line-item veto, which will let the President cut pork from spending bills. A welfare recipient as a child, Kelley opposed the welfare-reform bill passed this summer...
Taking a column from the Ross Perot spreadsheet of political life, each week Minnick invites the press to a "Sunday Pork Chop," where he explains how to balance the federal budget. A Nixon Administration budget aide, Minnick wants to eliminate "corporate welfare," get our allies to foot part of the defense bill and trim spending without raising taxes or gutting entitlements...
Roemer is a centrist Democrat who does not toe the party line. As an economic conservative, he supports a balanced-budget amendment and is a hawk on legislative pork. But he shows his Democratic roots by backing federal education programs like the Pell Grant and Head Start. Already thrice victorious in the Third, Roemer seems to have found a moderate voice to suit his district...
Ganske's defeat of 36-year incumbent Neal Smith was one of the great upsets of 1994. The former surgeon wants to take a scalpel to congressional pork and small-business regulations. When it comes to crime, he would rather attack the cancer with punishment than preventive medicine, including a crackdown on deadbeat dads...
...machine asks you to rate the presentation of the food; I wanted to say the pork chops are dry," he said...