Word: bidness
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Despite losing his bid for Senate Majority Leader this year, Cochran remains a respected figure on both sides of the aisle. His reputation for intelligent bipartisanship--as chair of two agriculture committees, he mediates disputes between commodity interests--is replicated at home, where his popularity crosses both color and ideological lines. Cochran supports food stamps, rural housing and traditionally black colleges, and his agricultural leadership has earned the respect of the state's farmers...
...Second District House seat in 78 years, in 1990. While a member of the House--before being beaten by the Second's current Representative, Charles Bass--he co-authored the Congressional Accountability Act, the first Contract with America law passed by the 104th Congress. An unusual campaigner, in his bid for the Senate Swett has spent days working jobs from lobsterman to factory worker to Dunkin' Donuts employee in order to get to know his constituents...
...Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period before buying a handgun. He also sponsored a law making it illegal to obstruct access to abortion clinics, a popular move in the liberal Ninth. By no means camera shy, Schumer may be setting himself up to bid for New York's governorship...
Challenging Mike Doyle in his first re-election bid, Republican Fawcett is leading with the G.O.P. strength: calling for more local control over federal expenditures. He has attacked a Department of Housing and Urban Development plan to turn some private houses in the district into subsidized living for low-income renters. He also backs a reduction in payroll taxes, an increase in personal exemption for families with children, and an income-tax deduction for the cost of college tuition...
Wild is a physician with a law degree who hopes to leave both professions, for the moment, to fill the seat left open by Jack Reed's Senate bid. He signed an anti-tax pledge, and warns that Medicare must be restructured to be saved. The Second District, however, is traditionally Democratic and may not heed the call of the Wild...