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Nowhere is the vision problem more apparent than in Florida's conservative Panhandle. "I was surprised by the lack of interest of any kind in Dole among the grass-roots types who supported me," says first-term Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough. As in many other parts of the state, Dole has a secure grip on the party machinery, but that may not be enough. "The hard-core party people here support Dole," says Dr. Frank Biasco of Pensacola, a Republican state committeeman from Escambia County. "The ranking party officials are predominantly for Dole. But as far as I can tell...
John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a chief architect of G.O.P. spending cuts, met in early September with a group of first-term House Republicans and presented them with a fistful of newspaper clips about breaks that the new Congress had given to business. "We have to do something," he entreated them. "This is killing us." With prodding from Kasich, Bill Archer, the business-friendly chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is offering a response that has stunned colleagues from both parties. For months he had fended off efforts to eliminate corporate tax breaks...
...Academia in the 104th Congress has lost much of its traditional influence and that is to be expected from the Change in the House leadership," said John Keast, chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the president of the first-term Republican caucus...
...First-term Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, however, raised concerns about O'Brien's proposal at the meeting...
...largest turnover in the House of Representatives in the 20th century occurred in 1932. The next session of Congress, the one with the most first-term representatives of any Congress since the 19th century, enacted a wide array of reforms that forever transformed American government...