Word: pressler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republicans widened their margin in the Senate, while they shaved it down in the House. They picked up open Senate seats in Arkansas, Nebraska and Alabama, which will have two Republican Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, but lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down...
...LARRY PRESSLER (R) Senior Senator...
...finally threw his hat in the Senate ring. Reason? Because, he says, the once tolerable incumbent Senior Senator had taken to endorsing legislation that hurt the people of his state, specifically, the new telecommunications act. Giving up a safe seat in the House, the outspoken Representative should give Larry Pressler a run for his money...
...first Vietnam veteran elected to the Senate, Pressler, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, distinguished himself on the Hill for winning a historic battle to rewrite the nation's communications law. Though called by a national magazine "the Forrest Gump of legislators" for his notorious miscues (he once mistook a closet door for an exit), Pressler's Rhodes Scholar background will likely see him through this tough race...
...easy audience to reach. The state's voters are concentrated in two small media markets (Sioux Falls and Rapid City), where 30 seconds of prime-time TV costs $500 (in contrast to $60,000 in Los Angeles). Both sides are gearing up for another roll in the mud, Pressler with a new round of ads attacking Johnson for the Washington Babylon rumors, Johnson with charges about Pressler's use of campaign funds for personal expenditures. South Dakota voters hoping for a probing debate of the issues may be disappointed, but fans of high-level political intrigue are likely to stay...