Who do you want to represent
your interests in the US Senate?
Candidates’ positions differ sharply
Hillary Rodham
Clinton Supports:
Rick Lazio Supports:
ECONOMIC SECURITY
• Laws to protect the economic security of working families.
• Using the federal-budget surplus to pay down the national debt, and to improve education, strengthen Social Security and Medicare.
• Weakening protections for overtime pay.
• Increasing tax cuts for the wealthy (95 percent of his tax plan’s benefits would go to those with annual income of more than $39,500).
HEALTHCARE
• A strong Patients’ Bill of Rights that guarantees access to specialists and emergency-room services and allows patients to sue their HMOs for harmful decisions.
• Her own new initiative to assure delivery of high-quality care in nursing homes.
• Long-term-care-insurance tax deduction.
• Patients’ Bill of Rights legislation with minimal infringements on the power of insurance companies to dictate care.
• Ending federal quality standards for nursing-homes.
• Repealing law guaranteeing nursing-home care for seniors.
EDUCATION
• Annual tax deductions of up to $10,000 for college tuition.
• Cutting funding for student loans by $10.1 billion over seven years..