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Balanoff is hopeful that in this traditionally Democratic district--it has voted for Bill Clinton, Paul Simon and Carol Moseley-Braun--a Republican Congressman is an anomaly. He blames Jerry Weller's victory in 1994--by 34,000 votes--on the 68,000 Democrats who didn't bother going to the polls. Balanoff does offer a choice: he wants to balance the budget by cutting "corporate welfare," not funds for Medicare or education...
...Senate seemed like a good place to start. Carol Moseley-Braun is the only black senator in the United States. She is a Democrat from Illinois and has been in the Senate since January 1993. The black population in America is 12.6 percent of all Americans. The House is a much more representative body than the Senate, with over 25 black members; but the obvious reason for this (which also explains why the Senate is a better gauge of the country's sentiment), is that it takes an entire state to elect a senator and only a district to elect...
...result of the 1980 census, the number of Black representatives in Congress increased from 17 in 1981 to 20 in 1983. There are now 40 Blacks in Congress--39 in the House, including Eleanor Holmes Norton, a nonvoting member representing the District of Columbia, and one senatior, Carol Moseley-Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. All but one of these Black representatives are Democrats...
...chamber. Though the Tennessee obstetrician and gynecologist had acknowledged performing 39 abortions during his 38-year career, no one had accused him of doing or even of condoning the grisly procedure described by Smith. "It's outrageous to bring something like that on the Senate floor," Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun complained...
...theirhealth insurance premiums. It also would eliminate tax breaks for companies that sell TV stations to minorities, while retaining the benefit for Murdoch's contract to sell an Atlanta station to a minority firm. That would save Murdoch an estimated $63 million. The exception was inserted by Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) to help a group of Illinois investors involved in the Murdoch deal...