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Kennelly isn't losing much sleep over her bid for an eighth term: since taking office in 1982, she has won each election with at least 62% of the vote. Her father once chaired the Democratic National Committee, and Kennelly is proud of her political roots. She recently introduced nanny tax reform (raising the threshold at which employers must pay Social Security for domestic workers) and a law penalizing deadbeat parents...
...critic of the Clinton Administration. He also co-sponsored the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, which tightened sanctions against the island. Not considered an inner-circle member of the House G.O.P., he nevertheless keeps his constituents happy, winning at least 63% of the vote in each re-election bid...
...Sept. 21 primary guaranteed that a Democrat would fill the seat of Republican incumbent Jim Hayes, who failed this year in his bid for the Senate. John, who beat fellow Democrat Hunter Lundy, might be called the more moderate of the two conservatives. But like Lundy, he is antiabortion, supports a balanced budget and less government interference. And John hopes to ride his primary victory to a general-election win to become the revamped Seventh's first representative...
With a skeleton campaign crew and a promise to spend little money on his bid for Congress, Frumin was waging a low-key, coffeehouse campaign even in late summer. He emphasizes his 30 years in medicine (mostly as a psychiatrist) and is promoting a platform of universal health-care coverage. He also favors term limits, and hopes to set an example for other candidates with his largely self-funded campaign...
Blunt, a fifth-generation southwest Missourian, lost his 1992 bid for Governor in a bitterly negative campaign. Not repeating that mistake, he centered this year's primary campaign on Christian character and family virtues--supported by a healthy campaign fund. The conservative Blunt hopes to eliminate "million-dollar pensions" for members of Congress, and believes government should return more decisions to state and local levels...