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Wednesday, October 31, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
U.S. Senate
United States Senators are elected to six year terms which are served in Washington, D.C. Each state elects 2 senators. The term for this seat will begin in 1991 and end in 1997.
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Dick Williams (D)
Age: 56
Hometown: Kansas City
Education. B.A. from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, an M.A. from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Background: Williams is a lecturer at the Wichita State University.
Limit legislative terms, Williams says
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Democracy by lottery. Athenian-style, where leaders are chosen from the population by chance, and citizens are required to serve may be better than what we have, said Dick Cushman, candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Williams said an urgent need existed for campaign reform and changing politics in the United States.
"We have developed a tradition in this country of getting elected by saying as little as possible in 30 seconds or less," she said. "We don't have an open forum in which people together and discuss their problems."
Williams said one of the United States' fundamental problems was what he called the permanent Congress.
"There was more turnover in Brewney's Politburo than there is in today's United States Congress," he said.
Williams said terms of office for legislators should be limited to 12 years.
"If eight years is enough for the president, I think 12 years ought to be enough for the legislators," he said.
"We may not need a limit on incumbency if money was controlled," he said.
Williams said he supported the use of economic sanctions against Iraq. But he said the United States should concentrate on strengthening the United Nations to respond militarily episodes like the invasion of Kuwait.
He said the United States should remove its troops from the Persian Gulf and replace them with an interim force, else with no military force at all.
"It's a great mistake to have U.S. forces there as a dominating presence," Williams said. "The United States has little interest in determining the outcome."
Williams said the buildup had helped fuel the rise in oil prices,
which was Saddam Hussein's goal.
"War is always a sign that government policies have failed," he said. "It's convenient to have war. Why do we always have such bad choices?"
Williams predicted that shooting would start about four days before the Nov. 6 election.
"There's a great anti-incumbency feeling out there that only a war can cure," he said.
Williams blamed the incumbent-laden Congress for the savings and loan scandal.
"Congress deliberately changed the law to allow the wildest speculation possible," he said.
Williams said the changes allowed wealthy speculators to make unlimited, risk-free investments at the taxpayers' expense.
"This was a legalized scam right from the start," Williams said. "Kasebaum sits on the banking committee doing nothing to change the laws while she accepts contributions from banks and bankers."
Williams said he would back legislation to charge the $&L bailout to the wealthy because the people who were profiting from the $&L scandal
Williams also criticized Congress support for foreign military powers especially in Latin America.
should pay the bill
He said that the people of the United States were not being told the truth about U. involvement in Central America.
"We are fighting people who want a living wage so they can buy the things for their children that we want for ours." Williams said. "People are considered Communists in El Salvador if they organize a trade union."
"We are forcing people in Third World nations to work at starvation wages so that we can close down factories and send them our jobs."
In spite of what he concedes is an uphill battle against a popular incumbent, Sen Nancy Kassebaum. Williams is optimistic.
"This is a winnable campaign," Williams said. "I am an underdog, but the American people can do anything they want to do. If Poland can get control of its government, then we can get control of ours."
Williams said if everyone in Kansas gave him $1 he would have more money than Kassaebaum.
Deficit big problem, Kassebaum says
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
The national budget deficit and the way Congress deals with it is one of the fundamental problems that faces the United States, Sen. Nancy Kasse-
Kassabum is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate. She has served in the Senate since 1978.
She said that she did not support the Gramm Rudman bill, which mandates a balanced budget, when it was decided he has it skewed the budget process.
As a result, the budget passed last week probably is a disappointment to everyone, Kassabeum said.
"It's not going to accomplish all that we hoped it would, but nevertheless it's a budget," she said. "I would mass that I will support it."
Kassebaum said that she supported raising the marginal tax rate to 33 percent for people who earned more than $200,000 but that she also supported the 31-percent rate that was in the final version of the bill.
The current rate is 20 percent.
She said she also supported a 10 percent surtax on people making
more than $1 million a year
"My biggest disappointment is that (the budget) didn't cut spending more," she said. "It could have been more clean-cut. It could have frozen discretionary spending by government agencies."
Kassebaum said she supported the new farm bill, which cuts back on farm subsidies.
"We're beginning to move in the right direction," she said.
However, she said that other nations, particularly in the European community, would have to cut back and their own agricultural subsidies.
She said that she preferred a nonviolent solution to the crisis but that
"Otherwise we won't have a level playing field, and we'll have to go back into farm subsidies," she said.
“It’s important to remember that Saddam Hussein is a very ruthless leader and he has a goal in mind,” she said. “He can bide his time.”
Kassebaum said that the United States was in a difficult position in the Persian Gulf crisis and that she is a strong supporter of Bash's actions.
the United States was running out of time.
The U.S. forces in the Gulf will have to be rotated sometime in January or February, and the crisis should be resolved by then, even if the use of force is necessary, Kassebba said.
"The condition of our hostages over there would have a lot to do with that," she said.
She said she would expect Bush to notify Congress before he initiated offensive actions in the gulf crisis because the law required it.
"I don't really support the war-powers resolution, but nevertheless, it's the law of the land," she said.
She also said that she favored putting all forces in the Gulf under the United Nations' flag.
Kassebaum said health care was one of her top priorities because the problems of finding affordable health care in her area insurance were escalating rapidly.
"That would remove us from being the lightning rod for all the actions there," she said. "It's something we should explore."
She said that eventually the United
States would have some kind of basic health-care provisions for everyone.
"There is a need to make all everyone has access to health care," she said. "The question is, should we nav for it nationally?"
She said she would consider any measures that would help slow the spiraling costs of health care and health insurance.
"If health-care costs are brought under control, I would support some kind of basic care for everyone," she said.
Budget-related changes in Medicare probably would not shift an additional burden on the Kansas Association of Stabilization Services, Kassebaum said.
The new budget raised Medicare premiums and deductibles, and it lowered payments to doctors and hospitals.
Kassebaum said that her greatest concern was education and that educational standards should be raised.
The federal government is limited in what it can accomplish in that arena because local and state government has about 90 percent of education, she said.
Nancy
Kassebaum
(R)
Age: 58
Hometown: Topeka
Education: B.A. in political science from the University of Kansas, M.A. in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan.
Background: Kassebaum is serving her second term in the U.S. Senate. Kassebaum served on the Maize school board before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978.
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