Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD radio hums in the background, rattling off an endless barrage of codes, car numbers and static. The stream of white noise is interrupted only by the crooning of the Bryan Adams and the Blues Traveler tunes playing on the radio...
Mascara's background is the foundation of his politics: his father died in a steel-mill accident and his grandfather in a mining accident, so he knows first-hand the rough life of industrial workers in his district. He has vowed to work for their security--health care, jobs, portable pension plans--but has achieved his greatest visibility calling for a safer radar system at Pittsburgh International and other U.S. airports...
...Commerce, Science and Transportation, distinguished himself on the Hill for winning a historic battle to rewrite the nation's communications law. Though called by a national magazine "the Forrest Gump of legislators" for his notorious miscues (he once mistook a closet door for an exit), Pressler's Rhodes Scholar background will likely see him through this tough race...
GUNS. House and Senate: Would you have voted for the "Brady Bill," which requires each would-be purchaser of a handgun to wait five days while local law-enforcement officials conduct a personal background check on the purchaser? [HR1025, 1993, 103d Congress. Passed, H vote: 238-189; S vote...
...years since being elected to fill Al Gore's vacant Senate seat, Thompson's star has risen quickly. He sees himself as a "citizen Senator" and has tremendous populist appeal, both because of his acting background and because his legislative priorities reflect such sensibility: term limits, campaign-finance and juvenile-court reforms, and biannual budgets for Congress. With this style, Thompson is one Senate incumbent who can run as an outsider...