Word: congressman
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...mark of the biggest traumas is that they reach down to the smallest levels. On the morning after Election Day, the 8-year-old son of a defeated Democratic Congressman walked slowly into his third-grade classroom at Horace Mann School in Washington and announced sadly, "My dad lost." The boy was worried that he might have to move, and his teacher tried to console him. "He's too little to understand the full implications," says principal Sheila Ford. "But he knows enough that it's been real hard...
Stockman was a pro-gun, pro-school prayer sometime house painter and occasional accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country...
...Congressman says one of his heroes is Representative Dick Armey of Texas, who used to live in his office, sleeping on his couch and showering in the House gym -- practices Stockman plans to emulate. He knows he will have to work hard for the folks back home. "This is a tough district," he told TIME. "I know I got a lot of votes, not because they love Steve, but because they are mad at Brooks...
Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saw his re-election hopes thwarted last week by a covert operation he did not predict and could not prevent. On the Sunday before the election, the conservative Christian Coalition distributed thousands of "voter guides" throughout Glickman's congressional district. The pamphlets were slipped onto car windshields in church parking lots; some pastors allowed the guides to be distributed inside their churches. The guides, designed to appear objective and distributed close to the election so Glickman couldn't effectively protest them, gave the Congressman negative ratings...
Replacing the Democratic liberals was a herd of Republicans ranging from the born-again to the libertarian, led by the china-and-crystal-sm ashing Congressman from suburban Atlanta, Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...