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This fifth-generation South Dakotan is a pro-labor Democrat who proposes a four-point plan to increase cattle prices; he doesn't want family livestock producers to become extinct, like "our meat-eating friend Tyrannosaurus rex." A self-described "Daschle Democrat" (after the state's moderate Junior Senator), he also supported the minimum-wage increase, the earned-income tax credit and portable insurance, and has a good chance of replacing Tim Johnson, who is giving up the seat to run for the Senate...
...elected, Waldron says he will focus on keeping jobs in the U.S. The moderate Democrat refuses to label himself protectionist, but praises Pat Buchanan's view that U.S. business needs to keep its work force at home. And he proposes tax credits for U.S. automakers...
...style dove and partisan Democrat, Brown is the longest serving Californian in Congress. Once chairman of the House Science Committee, he has made the space program a priority while ardently opposing space-based military systems. Yet winning his past several elections by increasingly slim margins--his 1994 victory was by 2,629 votes--Brown himself has been targeted as vulnerable by the G.O.P...
Sanchez is a Santa Ana businesswoman who became a Democrat in 1992. While her Republican past lingers on in her belief in the need for tax reform, she also now believes that social services should be at least partially available to illegal immigrants and vows to fight cuts in Medicare and educational funding. The district is nearly 50% Latino and 48% Democrat, but it voted for Bush in 1992. Sanchez will need a large--and moderate--turnout to scare the nine-term Bob Dornan...
...G.O.P. challenger Flores won 41% of the vote in a district that is only 26% Republican. Running against the same Democrat this year, the former teamster hopes his crossover muscle is more toned as he breaks the party mold with his support of labor and opposition to Republican legislation that would permit worker-management teams to negotiate outside union contracts...