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Fattah swept the 1994 election with 84% of the vote--the widest margin of any new Congressman. In a majority African-American district, running against a Republican, he's favored to do it again. Popular in his district, Fattah was also elected whip of the Congressional Black Caucus...
...news anchor has emerged as another successful Midwestern politician who has taken power with conservative fiscal policies and moderate social ones. He has broken with the G.O.P. to support family leave and health-care legislation, and his formerly liberal constituency has re-elected him twice by a large margin...
This popular incumbent requested $871 million in the fiscal 1997 budget for President Clinton's Summer Youth Employment Program, and has supported a 1996 bill to extend the presidential line-item veto to include corporate tax exemptions. In this Democratic district that gave Bill Clinton a 26% margin in 1994, Barrett has a good chance of continuing his liberal program in the 105th Congress...
Enzi won the G.O.P. primary by a narrow 2,000-vote margin. His conservative platform includes a "simpler, flatter" tax system and more state control of federal lands. Enzi hopes to profit from the endorsement of popular retiring Senator Alan Simpson and a solid state tradition of Republican representation...
...Bill Clinton is re-elected President but inherits a Congress similar to the existing one--controlled by Republicans, but lacking the margin needed to force through their agenda--we are likely to experience a government much like the one that has operated in recent months. If Republicans manage to retain control of both houses and win the White House, Bob Dole could move quickly on a broadly conservative agenda that would include a balanced-budget plan and his across-the-board 15% income...