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Budget YES Medicare YES Defense NO Abortion YES Guns NO Gays NO Bosnia NO NAFTA YES Welfare YES Medical Leave NO (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "What a difference a morning makes."
HAROLD VOLKMER (D) District 9
BORN: April 4, 1931, Jefferson City EDUCATION: U of Missouri, LL.B., 1955 FAMILY: Widower; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1955-57 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Missouri Assistant Attorney General, 1955; Marion County prosecuting attorney, 1960-66; Missouri House, 1966-76; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 991, Hannibal 63401. Tel.: 573-221-0373
This 20-year incumbent has earned a reputation as one of the more boisterous and argumentative Democrats in the House. He has engaged in many floor fights, and in the 104th Congress served on the "floor patrol," the party's first line of defense against G.O.P. proposals. Volkmer does break ranks with a majority of Democrats on gun control: he voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons, and at the 1996 Democratic Convention he walked out on Sarah Brady's anti-gun speech.
THE ISSUES
Budget NO Medicare NO Defense NO Abortion YES Guns NO Gays YES Bosnia NO NAFTA NO Welfare NO* Medical Leave YES (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I don't agree with Sarah Brady that only the police and military should have guns."