were unified behind the president and Congressman Wolf,” Mr.

were unified behind the president and Congressman Wolf,” Mr. Rich said.

Rep. Wolf, who was given the official party nod for the 10th District in April, delivered the keynote address and received enthusiastic endorsements by all candidates for various party committees.

Rep. Wolf pledged his support to such Republican legislative mainstays as a reduction in the capital gains tax, securing a line-item veto for the president in budget bills, and passage of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.

Rep. Wolf also praised the work of former president Ronald Reagan and President Bush in the dissolution of communism in the former Soviet Union. He proceeded to say that Mr. Bush is on track in his domestic agenda and blamed the breakdown of the traditional family for much of the United State’s domestic ills.

“Much of it isn’t because of federal spending, or lack of federal spending. It’s because of the breakdown of the family," Rep. Wolf said to the sustained applause of the more than 400 delegates to the convention.

Rep. Wolf called on Congress to pass Mr. Bush’s domestic agenda, laid out in his State of the Union address this year, and singled out the need for an increase in the amount allowed exempted from federal taxes for children.

“If the exemption for children had kept up with inflation (since its inception), it would be $8,000. That’s why we need the modest increase from $2,150 to $3,500 that is proposed,” Rep. Wolf said.

Conventioners voted in district delegates to the state and national conventions, opting for a mostly moderate slate of candidates despite heavy lobbying for a more conservative slate.

Conventioners picked Richard Hendrix, Paul Milo Jr., and Conrad Helsley to represent the district in the state convention. They picked Philip Drew, Jose Santaballa, and Michael Farris to go to the party’s