Word: clyburn
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...JAMES CLYBURN (D) District 6 (Central and south--Florence; parts of Columbia and Charleston...
...Clyburn became the first black South Carolinian elected to the House since George Washington Murray left Capitol Hill in 1897. He has often been the only liberal South Carolina vote in the 104th Congress, but uses his ability to work with both parties to deliver federal funding to the district...
McLeod lost big to James Clyburn in 1994, but was also heavily outspent. He wants creationism taught in schools and hopes his social conservatism attracts religious blacks as well as whites in the Sixth. Were he to win, he would be one of Congress's strictest constitutionalists, advocating a drastic contraction of the Federal Government, including elimination of federal income and inheritance taxes in favor of a consumption...