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The tone was warm, especially Wednesday night when three candidates for the United States Senate discussed before more than 100 students from the University of Oregon School of Law.

Steve Novick and Democrats Candy Neville and John Frohnmayer Independent answered questions from Oregon students and teachers, and community members of a universal healthcare system, bi-sidedness and the importance of human rights protection citizens.

The candidates each have an introduction of two minutes before taking turns with an answer in two minutes on each of the eight questions during the 90-minute debate.

The first question was about the candidates’ beliefs regarding the implementation of a universal health care.

Novick, who emerged as one of the best riders for the Democratic nomination in collaboration with Jeff Merkley, the first answer and said he supports additional projects preventive health care, such as, for example, the recent proposal by Senator Ron Wyden, which prohibits insurance companies, if a patient because of a pre-existing condition.

“I would say it is a simple payers, if we propose that the Senate,” said Novick. “I believe that human dignity of Health Care in Canada, and everyone has access to health care, and they spend much less than we do.”

Frohnmayer, a former delegate of the first President Bush to head the National Endowment for the Arts, said the issue of health care in the relationship porous state of the American economy, and added that the United States increased from $ 2 , 4 trillion euros per year on health. From this money, he said, “one third of the advertising, it is wages and management of insurance.”

Neville, the only candidate for the Senate of local communities to Eugene, she said that the need for universal health care as one of the major problems facing the United States.

“I place of health care is directly with the schools,” said Neville. “If people are on the shoulders of a good health system that they are able to work, they are able to buy things that they are able to spend money and they are able to pay taxes. ”

Later in the debate, as teintait tears in her eyes, Neville also to the importance of the return of troops to provide security as quickly as possible, a matter that you are invited to give in this race.

“I am mother,” said Neville, his voice shaking. “I am, because more than anything else, I hope that the soldiers in Iraq are from the past, who are far from home, to believe that every day that we work hard for it actually At home, which we call “los Still to be true, that.” If only I could still another, it would be him. ”

The most contentious issues the following night, there was a question about the Democratic and Republican parties work together.

While the remarks Frohnmayer, he says, that he himself, the former later, the Republicans and Democrats, is newly created under the Independent Party, because he said he believes that Both sides, the system is irreparable.

“Our political system is broken so hard, they are not resolved in a republican or a democrat,” said Frohnmayer. “What we need is a procedural error, that change and the change is in a third voice American policy. ”

Bipartisanship Novick said is not as important as the formation of a government that refuses to get rid of fear.

“We need a party of truth,” he said. “We do not need to destroy our civil liberties in the fight against terrorism.”

Any idea, the three candidates had agreed that they believed that President Bush should be charged, and immediately.

“I would blame the president, and I would be the last day of his mandate,” said Frohnmayer.

In addition Novick, and Merkley Neville, David Loera of Salem and Pavel Goberman of Beaverton search the appointment May 20th Democratic primary school and fighting instead of Gordon Smith, Republican senator for the election in November. Frohnmayer is the only candidate who seeks to currently part of the independent candidates.