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"[Brown] said he hopes the [Christian Coaliton] under Combs sticks to its mission of recruiting candidates who are heavily focused on family values."-- The Post and Courier, Dec. 6, 2001.

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Brown votes repeatedly for liberal cuts

March 11, 2001 -- U.S. Rep. Henry Brown voted a dozen times this week on measures to push through the bulk of a $1.6 billion tax cut that critics say is fiscally irresponsible.

"How in the world can Brown vote for a tax cut when the U.S. Treasury has a $5.6 trillion debt?" asked anti-Brown activist Andy Brack. "It makes absolutely no sense to take money out of the Treasury when there's still a whopping debt out there.

"Brown and his cronies obviously went to the liberal school of budgeteering -- borrow more and more so you don't have to pay your debts," he said. "The true conservative approach to the budget is to forego a tax cut and pay off what has been borrowed over the last 30 years."

U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has dubbed the tax cut plan as "Reaganomics II" because it ignores the soaring national debt.

In a Feb. 21 interview with the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Brown highlighted his understanding of the national budget.

When he said one of his priorities was to balance the budget, Brown observed, "We can do it without using reserve funds."

NOTE 1 TO BROWN: If the U.S. Government had reserve funds, there would not be a $5.6 trillion debt.

NOTE 2 TO BROWN: If you're so interested in balancing the budget -- a position that highlights the need for more money to make ends meet -- why would you vote for tax cuts that will take money out of the budget and create a bigger imbalance?

 

"I don't know that there's any scientific evidence that warrants further protections at Cape Romain."

-- Henry Brown, responding to a Feb. 8 story in which the National Audobon Society said Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge was one of the 10 most threatened refuges in the country. Also in the story, Brown implied Audobon members were "extreme environmentalists."

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