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In Mr. Slaughter’s office, press secretary Carter Comick says that the bill is still alive and well. With 39 sponsors, it is now before the House Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Cornick said Monday.
Rep. Slaughter has in the past attacked deficit spnding and has vowed to fight during each term for a balanced budget.
He voted against the budget package submitted by President George Bush this fall — perhaps the only issue on which he and Mr. Smith have agreed: the Democratic challenger also attacked the proposed budget.
Of the current budget crisis, campaign manager Likins said that “French Slaughter is as mad as anyone else, if not madder.”
Political pundits everywhere are saying that incumbents are more vulnerable than usual because of the deadlock. Rep. Slaughter may have an increased vulnerability because he has not met his challenger head on in a face-to-face shoot-out.
Instead, faxes have zipped across the wires, and it has been less a case of issues debated than charges and counter-charges flung by the candidates, or their representatives.
In addition to his support for business and a balanced budget, Rep. Slaughter has made it clear that in most cases he opposes abortion, the legalities of which he feels should be left up to individual states through their legislative processes. He has agreed that a modest reduction in defense spending may be achieved with the thawing of the cold war.
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