Word: fought
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...challenge of opposing Fowler, and, according to Florida law, she doesn't even need to be on the ballot: she is already "elected." A social moderate, Fowler fought mandatory parental notification of minors' abortions in 1993, and is the only Republican woman on the National Security Committee...
...ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1996, St. Petersburg 33731. Tel.: 813-547-8644 From his humble beginnings as a high school dropout in a Pennsylvania mining town, Young has worked his way to a position of power and influence in the House. As chair of the National Security Subcommittee, he has fought cuts in defense and intelligence funding, and has used his influence to funnel military spending to the 10th, the home of numerous defense interests...
...switched parties in 1989, won a congressional seat three years later and has since reigned as a champion of conservative Republican causes. This year he sponsored the Partial Birth Abortion Act to prosecute doctors who perform this rare procedure; and as chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, he fought unsuccessfully for an amendment to impose term limits. Running against his lesser-known cousin, his biggest challenge may be to make sure no one pulls the wrong lever by mistake...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Big-money influence is something I fought to control in the state of Georgia, and now it's time to control big-money influence in Congress...
...state legislator, doctor and minister, Fletcher has spent much of his life giving service. He has fought to make health care affordable and accessible and has volunteered as a medical professor and doctor for the Kentucky Care Program, which provides free medical care to the uninsured. But he promises also to protect the state's tobacco farmers, not necessarily a political problem for a doctor in Kentucky...