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In a district where tilling the soil is not a hobby but an industry of thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last...
A nurse and a farmer--she took over operating a 320-acre farm after her first husband died in an accident--Leising lobbied for term limits from her seat in the Indiana Senate. She also introduced informed-consent legislation requiring Indiana women to wait 18 hours and receive counseling before...
Locked in one of the closest races in New Jersey, Martini has credentials that may invite crossover votes. He is endorsed by the Sierra Club for his environmental record--he led an effort to prevent development of the 17,500-acre Sterling Forest--is pro-choice and voted to raise...
In the end the heroes had probably preserved two redwood groves in Humboldt County, one of them the celebrated 3,000-acre Headwaters tract, a spectacular forest of towering, ancient redwoods--the largest still in private hands. And they knew for certain that they had sacrificed four smaller groves, rich...
No environmentalists took part in the meeting at Feinstein's office. Greens have tied up PL's logging in federal court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and...