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Collins was among the dozens of G.O.P. Congressmen who felt they were sent to Washington to trim the budget, downsize the Federal Government and lower taxes. But he also has paid attention to his constituents, many of whom depend on air travel and the military for their livelihood (the Third is home to Fort Gillem and Hartsfield Airport), supporting the repeal of airline fuel taxes and just about any bill that would increase defense spending...
...District, DeJuliis' connection with the working class--like her mother before her, she worked the midnight shift at the Western Electric steel mill--poses a serious challenge to Robert Ehrlich's incumbency. She supports government benefits for the elderly and government guaranteed loans for students. But her success may depend on how effectively she can stick a Gingrich pin to Ehrlich...
Burr couldn't steal the Fifth from Democrat Stephen Neal in 1992, but won it on Neal's 1994 retirement. How firm his hold now is--it was a Democratic district for 20 years before Burr arrived--may depend on local distaste for President Clinton's 1993 75-cents-a-pack cigarette-tax proposal. Burr's defense of the embattled tobacco industry is a winner here in R.J. Reynolds' backyard...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The question of who will represent the 12th Congressional District...will be decided by middle-class people, like myself, who know that their parents depend on Medicare and Social Security to live out their retirement in dignity...
...demonstrate that it's possible to make it out of poverty. But whether this will help in a district that hasn't voted for a Republican since Lincoln--and where the incumbent wields such clout, according to the Washington Times, that businesses are afraid to support Hayle--will depend on getting her fellow Caribbeans and pro-life Catholics to the polls...