Word: jersey
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...their largest majority in the House in a decade, the gains were spread thinly but widely across the U.S. Except for an impressive five-seat switch in once-Republican Indiana, the pickup was piecemeal: another five seats in New York's big delegation; four each added in New Jersey and California; mostly singles and doubles, if any, in other states. Yet the net result was a solid 43-member boost for the Democrats, providing a 291-to-144 advantage-big enough for majority leaders to ram through almost any legislation they desire but not so large as to become...
...talk within the Democratic caucus of clipping the committee's jurisdiction or even easing Mills out as chairman. Next in line is Oregon's Al Ullman, a hard-working liberal, popular with his colleagues. Also likely to assume heavy responsibilities in the next House is New Jersey's Peter Rodino, whose performance as chairman of the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings contributed to his lopsided reelection...
...other Republicans who voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...four defeated Nixon loyalists were from New Jersey: Charles Sandman Jr. and Joseph J. Maraziti. The gravel-voiced Sandman, whose raucous defense of Nixon had variously appalled or delighted millions of viewers, was beaten in his seaside district by William J. Hughes, a former assistant county prosecutor who had narrowly lost to Sandman four years ago. Although defeated this time, 108,486 to 76,962, Sandman said he had no regrets about his pro-Nixon stance. "If I had to do it over, I would do the same thing," he declared! Maraziti succumbed to the combination of Watergate, newspaper reports...
...quality of their credentials. Of the six new women members of the U.S. House, for example, only one, Marilyn Lloyd, 44, of Tennessee, is a widow who was chosen to replace her husband on the ticket. The other five: Democrat Helen Stevenson Meyner, 46, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, who has been politically active since her husband left office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president...