My Name Is Tom Harkin, and I'M a Spendaholic
The 10 least-frugal Senators* (as ranked by the nonpartisan Concord Coalition) who also had the audacity -- or was it courage? -- to vote for one of two competing balanced-budget amendments to the Constitution:
1 Tom Harkin (D.-Iowa)
2 John Breaux (D.-Louisiana)
3 Howell Heflin (D.-Alabama)
4 James Jeffords (R.-Vermont)
5 Carol Moseley-Braun (D.-Illinois)
6 Dave Durenberger (R.-Minnesota)
7 Joseph Biden (D.-Delaware)
8 Richard Bryan (D.-Nevada)
9 Harry Reid (D.-Nevada)**
10 Paul Simon (D.-Illinois)**
* The Senators were graded according to their votes last year on the 20 bills that most shaped the overall dimensions of last year's budget.
** Reid and Simon were the leading Democratic sponsors of the two competing bills.
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