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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, Senator Alfonse D'Amato is Target One--the Republican they most want to knock off. Running for his fourth term, the gruff, perpetually embattled New Yorker, who barely squeaked past a weak Democratic challenger six years ago, is considered one of the G.O.P.'s two most vulnerable Senators (Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina is the other). If the Democrats can beat them, it would help avoid a 60-seat G.O.P. majority and hold down the number of hostile votes in what may become Clinton's impeachment jury. But for the President, the New York race is personal. As chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wizard Casts His Spell | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...through overzealous enforcement of antitrust? laws. ?We must protect our high-tech industry?s freedom to innovate,? said the Oct. 12 letter, copying Microsoft?s p.r. machine practically verbatim. While the letter was circulating, CEO Bill Gates appeared in North Carolina with one of his most vocal Senate defenders, Lauch Faircloth, who is locked in a squeaker of a race. Gates didn?t endorse Faircloth, but spoke warmly of him and thanked him for his help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Buys Some New Republican Friends | 10/24/1998 | See Source »

...comfort to the managed-care companies would. So G.O.P. candidates have been taking cover where they can find it. In the House, Norwood counted 90 Republicans among the 232 sponsors of his reform legislation; in the Senate, no less a bulwark of the right than North Carolina's Lauch Faircloth climbed aboard a similar bill when his challenger began claiming the Senator was in the pocket of insurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Play Doctor | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...first few years after he was elected in 1992, North Carolina's Lauch Faircloth tried to be every bit as conservative and unbridled as that other, better-known Republican Senator from the Tar Heel State, Jesse Helms. During the Whitewater hearings, Faircloth used his seat on the Senate Banking Committee to accuse Hillary Clinton of having "lied." In the fight over health-care reform, he was one of the most vinegary opponents of the Clinton plan--or Hillary Care, as he liked to call it. And just days before Kenneth Starr was named Whitewater independent counsel in 1994, Faircloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Republican Who's Taking His Medicine | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Robert Byrd: D, West Virginia (2) 5 Lauch Faircloth: R, North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 23, 1998 | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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