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John M. Spratt Jr.
South Carolina
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Spratt, 64, is a courtly Southerner and a wonkish moderate from an old South Carolina family. A graduate of Yale and Oxford, he has a reputation as a hard worker.
He has been a member of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's leadership team while in the minority, as well as the second-ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
Spratt is a military-policy specialist who is expected to demand from the Bush administration a more thorough accounting of Iraq war costs. He played a key role in the 1997 balanced-budget agreement and is expected to be a stickler for fiscal austerity and realistic growth projections in a Democratic-led House. That could cause friction with colleagues who are eager to loosen the purse strings for their long-deprived home districts and pet causes.
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