Warren Rudman, Senator Who Fought Budget Deficits, Dies at 82

Warren Rudman, the U.S. senator from New Hampshire whose dim view of government’s ability to make painful choices was enshrined in the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law, has died. He was 82.

He died yesterday, according to the Associated Press, citing Rudman’s Washington firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group. No cause of death was given.