Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senators elected from California next fall. Moderate Democrat Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, roundly defeated state controller Gray Davis 58% to 33% and will face appointed incumbent John Seymour, a moderate Republican, in November. Liberal Democratic Congresswoman Boxer, with 44%, overcame both Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy and Congressman Mel Levine and will take on conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston...
...California's 52 congressional races. All of them clearly benefited from the anti-incumbent mood in general -- and Anita Hill's coattails in particular. "We're seeing the shattering of the political glass ceiling for women in California," said University of Southern California election expert Eric Schockman. Moaned defeated Congressman Levine: "I got hit by a tidal wave known as the year of the woman...
...this year, 56 members of Congress have announced that they will not seek re-election in November, the largest voluntary departure since World War II. Among those who have decided not to return are Democratic Senators Tim Wirth of Colorado and Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Republican Congressman Vin Weber of Minnesota. At a round-table session, Wirth, Conrad and Weber discussed their reasons for leaving and how their attitudes toward government and public service were changed by their experiences in Washington. Excerpts...
WEBER: We are in a decaying spiral of public confidence. The public does not trust the institutions; they don't trust the political parties. It used to be, "I hate the Congress, but I love my Congressman." Now they've decided they hate their Congressman, too. Having fully discredited the parties and the institution, now we're discrediting the individuals. I'm not by nature a pessimist. I like to think that our system works and is going to right itself. But I see it decaying. I don't know what comes next after we have this tremendous cleaning...
...yacht Sequoia and lobbied the Oval Office, the Cabinet and Capitol Hill. In 1975, for example, he pulled off a coup most lobbyists only dream about. Late one night as the House Ways and Means Committee tied up the loose ends in that year's tax bill, then Democratic Congressman Phil Landrum of Georgia introduced an amendment that might have been the largest one-time tax break in history, granting Perot an unheard-of capital-loss carry-back. Perot had contributed more than$27,000 to 12 members of the Ways and Means Committee. Ten of the recipients voted...