Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chart below, TIME on Capitol Hill offers a comparison of the amount of money raised by the leading congressional candidates seeking your vote...
After six years in the U.S. House, Allard wants to move to the other side of the Capitol and keep retiring Senator Hank Brown's seat in the party. Allard supports a balanced-budget amendment and a controversial proposal to turn federally owned Colorado ski areas over to resort operators. A social conservative, Allard is against gay rights and favors the death penalty for first-degree murder and certain drug offenses; in the House, he supported a law limiting death-row inmates to one federal appeal...
Though a 10% Republican registration edge in the district gives Mica a head start in the polls, incumbency also helps. As does his business approach to government--learned during ventures in real estate and international trade before arriving on Capitol Hill--which he has used in his fight against waste as a member of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee...
Linder has gained a reputation as a budget hawk and an advocate for small business during his two terms on Capitol Hill. He is also tight with G.O.P. honchos: when Newt Gingrich considered running for President, he enlisted Linder's help. But even with Republican patronage and four years' experience, Linder, like all other Georgia candidates for the House, is testing his incumbency in a redrawn district...
...Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last year--sometimes aggravates his G.O.P. colleagues, but Ewing knows they don't vote to send him to Capitol Hill...