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...South Dakota farm boy and Christian conservative, Tiahrt has proposed abolishing the Department of Energy and supports the G.O.P.'s Medicare Preservation Act, which would have trimmed Medicare's growth by $270 billion over seven years. His victory in 1994 was considered an upset, and Tiahrt has a tough opponent in U.S. attorney Randy Rathbun...
...NORTH DAKOTA...
...state where everybody seems to know everybody else, dry seasons and bankrupt farmlands in the 1980s explain why North Dakota's population is less now than it was in 1930. Its land yields about one-tenth of the U.S. wheat supply, and agriculture makes up about half of its economy. North Dakota tends to send Republicans to Bismarck and Democrats to Washington, has no voter registration, one of the lowest divorce rates in the nation, and only one clinic that performs abortions. No wonder the state motto is, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable...
BORN: Jan. 21, 1961, Rolette EDUCATION: Concordia College at Moorhead (Minn.), B.A., 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Kris; four children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Director, North Dakota Tourism Department, 1993- POLITICAL CAREER: North Dakota Republican Party executive director, 1989-93, state chairman, 1991-93 ADDRESS: 105 East Broadway, Box 7395, Bismarck...
BORN: Sept. 2, 1952, Valley City EDUCATION: U of North Dakota, B.A., 1974, J.D., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Laurie Kirby; two adopted children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: North Dakota House, 1981-85; insurance commissioner, 1985-92; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 746, Bismarck...