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RALEIGH — Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress, died
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress, died Thursday. He was 95. Faircloth, who served one Senate term before losing to then-unknown Democrat John Edwards in 1998,
A North Carolina hog farmer and a Democrat-turned-Republican, he helped strip Mayor Marion Barry of his fiscal powers as Washington’s deficits swelled in the late ’90s.
(Archived document, may contain errors) zoo August 1, 1994 HOW CLINTONS BILL EXTENDS WEZiFm AS WE KNOW IT INTRODUCTION Americans are alarmed by the growth and effects of welfare. They correctly per ceive the current system to be an extraordinarily expensive debacle which destroys the lives of those it is intended to help. And by promoting illegitimacy and undennin ing the family, they see welfare as threatening the foundation of society.