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Given his length of service to this supremely conservative district--Clinton earned only 31% of its votes in 1992--it's not surprising that Crane, with eight children and the same wife for 37 years, is an ardent opponent of abortion, gun control and government regulation--as well as a heavy favorite to repeat...
Upton, whose grandfather was a founder of Whirlpool, is an ardent deficit fighter; in 1995, the Concord Coalition named him the fourth most fiscally conservative member of Congress. He initiated the fda Reform Plan, which enables medical-supply companies to produce goods for export that do not yet have fda approval--a popular program in the Sixth, home to Upjohn. Upton will be hard to beat; in five re-election bids, he has never won with less than 58% of the vote...
...ardent Kerry supporter and lifelong Democrat, Coleman says this policy does not damper the political activity of administrators...
...Chet Edwards to take charge of part of his vote-counting operation; Edwards himself would later vote for three-quarters of Gingrich's Contract with America. And when it came to developing anticrime policy for the caucus, Gephardt turned not to Conyers but to Bart Stupak of Michigan, an ardent foe of gun control...
...cross-pollination there suffered a steep devolution on the way to Charles and Diana. Bed hopping in country houses was probably never quite as careless or harmless as it seemed. Poor Lord Melbourne (whose biography by David Cecil was J.F.K.'s favorite book) suffered stoically for years while his ardent and unstable wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, made an idiot of herself with Lord Byron and others. But at least Melbourne, Lady Caroline and Byron were more interesting than Charles and Diana. Maybe Bill Clinton belongs to a more vigorous tradition of plebeian friskiness: Tom Jones transplanted to Arkansas...