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Central - 5 Candidates Square Off in GOP Congress Debate  News
Article  Location: Unknown  By Rebekah L. Sanders  The five
Republican candidates running to represent Congressional
District 9 faced each other Tuesday night in their first debate.
Arizona's controversial immigration-enforcement law known as SB
1070, which is before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, took
front and center stage in the debate, with each candidate
agreeing it should be upheld as constitutional.  The candidates
also agreed that the federal government should have a smaller
role in people's lives and that many of its agencies, such as
the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection
Agency, should be dissolved.  Health care is not a right for
Americans, they said, and competition among insurance companies
should drive down costs, not legislation such as President
Barack Obama's health- care reform.  The event was sponsored by
the Ahwatukee Republican Women, a g