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Even if he has kept a low profile, Senator Kerry has emerged from his second term with an impressive record of behind-the-scenes successes. A pivotal player in the 1994 Crime Bill, Kerry successfully incorporated crucial funding increases. An investigation he sponsored led to the uncovering of the BCCI scandal, and as Chair of the Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs, Kerry led the campaign for information about missing veterans which ultimately led to the normalization of relations with Vietnam...
...best defense I've ever played with," Prestifilippo said. "They kept all [Brown's] shots to the outside and really my job all night was making the first save. They didn't allow any rebounds or anything like that...
...Nebraska has remained a wide-open, Great Plains region ever since, with a unicameral legislative body composed of 49 nonpartisan Senators. For half a century, Nebraska has been one of the most Republican states in presidential elections--and has had three Republican U.S. Representatives since the 1960s--but has kept both its Senators Democrat. With James Exon retiring, however, that could change. In a state that is the world's best place to make a living by phone (a telemarketer's haven) and the birthplace of both Johnny Carson and Malcolm X--well, there's more than goldenrod and corn...
Coburn broke a 74-year-old mold by winning this seat, which had been the Democrats' since 1920. With no political experience, he promised to read every bill that crossed his desk and burned lots of midnight oil fulfilling the pledge. (He also kept delivering babies on weekends.) A devotee of health-care issues, Coburn promotes the G.O.P. plan to save Medicare by limiting its funding increases to 7% a year...
...grant--in fact, he worked with Pell to raise the maximum grant to $4,500. From his seat on the House Judiciary Committee, Reed supported the Brady Bill and President Clinton's crime bill, which included the assault-weapons ban. He began this campaign as a prohibitive favorite, and kept the mantle into the home stretch...