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...collector who has served in the state Senate since 1987, Coffin showed his independent streak by casting one of the few votes against a proposed 300% pension increase for state legislators in 1989. Though the 1990 redistricting should have helped Democrats, Coffin has lagged far behind Republican incumbent John Ensign in fund raising...
...JOHN ENSIGN (R) District...
...Ensign has one of the largest war chests of any House freshman. Nearly 20% of his contributions came from the gaming industry, which the former casino manager has defended from his coveted Ways and Means seat. In June Ensign led a rank-and-file G.O.P. effort to convince party leaders to remove Medicare from welfare-reform proposals, a move that helped win Clinton's signature on the controversial welfare bill...
Moreover, Congress had stripped out of its new welfare bill many of the harsh provisions that had provoked the President to veto two earlier versions. The decisive breakthrough began in early June, when two obscure G.O.P. Congressmen--John Ensign, a freshman from Las Vegas, and Dave Camp, a third termer from Michigan--conferred after a meeting of Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Says Ensign: "We both looked at each other and said, 'This is crazy!' " What was crazy, they thought, was a decision of the G.O.P. congressional leadership to keep welfare reform combined in a single...
...Ensign and Camp, however, wanted some real, popular legislation to present to their constituents. They got 52 House colleagues to sign a letter to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott urging that welfare reform and Medicaid be decoupled. Gingrich refused, but meanwhile Ensign was getting calls--30 in a few days, he says--from lawmakers who wanted to join his group. He and Camp got more than 100 House G.O.P. signatures on a second letter, and on July 11 the G.O.P. leadership gave...