Word: congressman
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...income borrowers doesn't sound like God's work, and the industry continues to hear criticism that it takes advantage of unsophisticated or desperate customers. "There is a whole segment of lenders who target low-income families and try to trap them in a vicious cycle of debt," complains Congressman Joseph Kennedy, a member of the House Banking Committee, who has pushed successfully for legislation to limit mortgage interest and fees. "It's a strategy that allows them to rake in hefty profits off the misery of others...
Callahan does what it takes to make it. He started work at age 12, after his father died, was a Democratic politician for a dozen years, switched parties when the First District Congressman retired in 1984, and won the seat that year as a Republican. As a g.o.p. leader in a G.O.P. House, Callahan can count on his reputation as a successful miner of federal funds as being more secure than ever...
Democrats face a tough fight against a Republican Party that sees a political opportunity in this open seat. Wilson promises to continue Bevill's dedication to development of Alabama's natural resources. (The Congressman's seniority brought money for roads and economic development into the district.) And like his opponent, Wilson emphasizes family values, which he hopes will extend to the old-style Southern political family of the Fourth District, which has had a Democrat in Congress for 94 years this century...
...Texas Congressman Bill Archer, Parker wants the seat he nearly won two years ago. A fourth-generation citizen of Huntsville, he touts his support of the district's military and space industry--the Defense Department alone employs 7,500 area residents--and, with an opponent with less pac money to spend than he had a year ago, Parker may close the narrow...
Peace in the Middle East and Bosnia may be elusive, but the Clinton Administration has brokered a sensitive cease-fire in Louisiana. Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week...