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Knollenberg represents a middle-class district that is 93% white and has had a G.O.P. Congressman for more than 40 years. In his four years in Congress, he has often locked horns with the White House; one of the few times he supported Clinton was on the passage of NAFTA. Knollenberg won re-election in 1994 with nearly 70% of the vote, and doesn't seem worried this year: as of early September, he had yet to publish any campaign literature...
Vento hopes the Fourth District, which hasn't elected a G.O.P. Congressman since 1948, will stick with tradition and give him an 11th term this fall. The former science teacher has been at the forefront of environmental issues, favoring taxes on high-level energy users, stronger clean-water and clean-air laws and increasing fees charged to companies that mine on public lands. Vento got a scare in 1994, when Dennis Newinski made a strong showing for the seat...
Running as an "Emercrat," Bill Emerson had been the first Republican to carry the Eighth District in 50 years. Lung cancer took the eight-term Congressman's life this year, and his widow is the G.O.P. nominee in a "special election" to finish his term, which officially ends in January. However, in a bizarre electoral twist, she is also running--as an Independent, on the same day--to win the seat for the next term...
...Ambassador to Romania, is the first Republican to win the Second District this century. Like Helms, Funderburk thinks food stamps are wasteful--as is aid to countries that are not our friends. Democrats determined to get their seat back hope that the 1995 flap over an auto accident--the Congressman pleaded no contest to running a truck off the road--will derail...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "A minimum-wage worker receives annual pay of just $8,500. Representative Ballenger earns that much in 16 days of playing Congressman...