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MOVING!,

Spence's Stance

Selling Out

The senator's campaign staff provides
his domestic policy positions.

Domestic policy positions
for incumbent Sen. Spencer
Abraham (R-Auburn Hills):

ABORTION: I am pro-life and I have

certainly voted that way in the
Senate. I have tried to focus my
efforts on issues on which most
people can agree. This includes
encouraging adoption and banning
partial-birth abortion.

BUDGET SURPLUS: I believe that we

must set aside the Social Security
surplus for Social Security and
more for Medicare reform. We
should invest in education, the mil-
itary, the environment and other
important areas and then send a
portion of the surplus back the tax-
payer. I support repeal of the mar-
riage tax penalty, the elimination of
the death tax, doubling of the $500
per child tax credit to $1,000 for
families, and a reduction in the
capital gains tax, particularly for
families in Michigan that are saving
and investing for the future.

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dollar should be spent in the class-
room, not on bureaucracy in
Washington. I want more money in
the classrooms and I believe teach-
ers, school administrators and par-
ents should be given the freedom to
make decisions at the local level
that's best for our kids.

Editor's note: Sen. Spencer
Abraham's director of communica-
tions, Joe Davis, provided the fol-
lowing material, with an apology
for its delay, on Oct. 26, nearly two
weeks after the Jewish News' dead-
line of Oct. 13 and after the Oct.
27 edition was distributed.
Democratic challenger Debbie.
Stabenow's positions on domestic
issues ran last week as part of "For
The Record," pages 14-16

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CAMPAIGN FINANCE: I have intro-

duced bipartisan legislation that
will address the problems of soft
money in politics and increase
disclosure requirements for dona-
tions. I have also voluntarily put a
limit on the amount of money
that I receive for my campaign
from outside of Michigan.

CHILD CARE: I believe that safe and
affordable child care should be available
for working parents, and just as impor-
tantly, parents must have more choices,
not fewer, when it comes to caring for
their children. I am a proud co-sponsor
of the Child Care Infrastructure Act to
encourage more child care at places of
employment. I support increased fund-
ing for the Child Care & Development
Block Grant, which distributes fund to
states to subsidize the child care expens-
es of poor parents who are working and
have children.

EDUCATION REFORM AND SCHOOL
VOUCHERS: We need classroom

accountability. I believe that 95
cents of every federal education tax

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Sen. Abraham

Debbie Stabenow

ENERGY EXPLORATION AND
CONSERVATION: I support increasing

domestic production and developing
alternative fuels. I believe we need to
reduce America's reliance on foreign
oil. When Michigan's families, auto-
motive and agriculture industries were
hurt by higher fuel costs this summer,
I offered legislation to suspend the 18-
cent federal gas tax.

COURT APPOINTMENTS: I do not use a

litmus test for nominees. My vote on
whether to confirm a nominee will
turn on whether that person has the
temperament, the character, the intel-
lect and the commitment to the rule

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Dan Michman

Bar-Ilan University

Professor Michman's research focuses on the
history of modern Dutch Jewry, Israeli society,
and various aspects of the Holocaust. In particu-
lar. he has examined problems of Jewish refugees
and migration, religious life under Nazi domina-
tion, and the impact of the Holocaust on world
Jewry and on Israeli society since 1967. .
Professor Michman's most recent publication is
Post-Zionism and tlw Holocaust: The Role of the
Holocaust in the Public Debate on Post-Zionism
in Israel, 1997:1998 (Finkler Institute of
Holocaust Research, Bar-Han University, 1999).

The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation Lecture

Religious Zionism at the
Crossroads: Past Beliefs and
Achievements, Present Crises

When Witnesses
Are No More:
The Holocaust as History

Wednesday. Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Max M. Fisher Federation Building
6735 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills

Thursday, Nov. 16, 3 p.m.
4339 Faculty/Administration Building
Wayne State University

Both lectures arc free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Light refreshments will be served.
For reservations by Nov. 13, please contact the Cohn-Haddow Center at (313) 577-2679 or «aa2690q wayne.edu ».

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