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...national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis won by beating a long-time Democratic leader of the State Senate...
Lewis came to the House in a special election--after William Natcher died--and became the first Republican to represent the Second District since the Civil War. An ordained minister, Lewis wants less government, opposes a national health-care system and did object to cuts in tobacco subsidies...
DIED. WILLIAM NATCHER, 84, Congressman; in Washington. The Kentucky Democrat was living proof that much of success is just showing up: in his 40 years on the Hill, no one showed up as often as Natcher, whose career-long record of never missing a roll-call vote (18,401 votes in all) ended with his worsening health last month...
Nowhere Man Plaque: WILLIAM NATCHER Capitol Hill wags say that Kentucky's Democratic Congressman is the perfect candidate for an American Express commercial. He's been in office since 1954, but no one's found out about...
...bless ye, weary gentlemen," intoned Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd in a nearly empty Senate chamber at 4:15 a.m. one day last week. Across the Capitol, in the more festive House, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte urged merrily, "On Whitten, on Natcher, on Michel and Wright; On Conte, on Foley, let's finish tonight...