Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the popular two-term Senator sponsored a bill to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam. But as a friend of working families, he also sponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now he must persuade voters that he has done more from the Capitol than Weld has done from the Statehouse...
Neal pounced on the chance to fill this seat when 36-year incumbent Edward Boland retired in 1988. Eight years later, with a Capitol Hill reputation for working effectively behind the scenes, he sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He voted for medical leave and the line-item veto but, to protect his district's medical-service industries, balked at the President's 1993 health-care plan...
...first African-American woman to represent North Carolina on Capitol Hill this century, Clayton was voted Most Influential Newcomer her first term and remains an advocate for the working people of her black-majority district...
...political novice, Etheridge nevertheless has an uphill trek to Capitol Hill against a well-connected incumbent in a district of Jessecrats. Etheridge's focus is on the environment, education and children. He worries especially about worker safety, wages and rights...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It is this idea that an ordinary citizen can govern our country that makes our nation great. However, this greatness is slipping away with the predominance of career politicians on Capitol Hill who have lost touch with the average citizen...