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...year than when she lost by 50 points to Vernon Ehlers in 1994. An elementary school teacher for 38 years, she wants full funding for Head Start and a community-college tax credit. And she says Ehlers "caved in" to the N.R.A. by voting to repeal the assault-weapons ban. In this Republican district, Flory has her work...
...independent study rated him the biggest budget cutter in the Michigan delegation in 1993 and 1994, Camp went on to become a member of the post-G.O.P. revolution group of conservatives that dominated the 104th Congress. He supported a balanced-budget amendment and opposed the assault-weapons ban. His record is consistent with his G.O.P.-leaning district, and he beat challenger Lisa Donaldson once before--by a 28% margin...
Danner made a bold entrance into Congress by unseating 16-year incumbent Tom Coleman in 1992. Two years later, she claimed two-thirds of the vote during the year of Republican political upheaval. A moderate to conservative Democrat, she voted against the ban on assault weapons, opposed lifting the ban on gays in the military, sponsored legislation for term limits and drafted the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which passed both houses this summer...
...Senator Thad Cochran. But Pickering is also keen to make his mark as his own man. Though not afraid to stake out a position on issues--he is pro-life, anti-gun control, supports a balanced-budget amendment, Dole's tax cut, welfare reform and the military's ban on homosexuals--he considers the TIME/CQ questionnaire too hypothetical to answer...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We do not pretend that an assault-weapons ban will end all crime, or even all gun violence. But taken in step with a strong crime bill, this can start to end the national epidemic of violence...