Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alaska House, 1967-71, Senate, 1971-73; U.S. House, 1973- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 100298, Anchorage 99510. Tel.: 907-563-4314 This crusty former trapper received a vital boost in the G.O.P.-dominated 104th, when he became chair of the House Resources Committee. This put him in a position to push bills like the one to allow Alaskan crude oil to be sold to foreign nations for a greater profit. Young looks strong here, but the independent tradition of the North makes him far from invincible...
...election in 1988. He has battled President Clinton's social policy, advocating cuts in the National Endowment for the Arts and led the 1994 campaign to remove Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders from office. But for all his social conservatism, he was one of the first in Congress to push for the recognition of Gulf War syndrome and has been a strong Medicare advocate, both issues having almost universal appeal in this popular retirement area...
...member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Democrat Lipinski used to reel in money for projects like the Southwest Rapid Transit Line and O'Hare Airport renovations or push through passenger taxes at airports, another gift to his district. But Republican control of the House has made things more complicated for the six-term Democrat, and voters may be asking "What have you done for me lately, Bill...
...shunned partisan politics. He voted against the balanced-budget amendment and thought repealing the gasoline tax was a political ploy. Making lower federal taxes a priority, he supports a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds congressional vote to raise taxes. Souder is not likely to let up in his push for less government, which should be popular in a district that gave Bush a hefty victory...
...Republican establishment when he soundly beat Overland Park mayor Ed Eilert, who was endorsed by retiring Senator Nancy Kassebaum. A fiscal and social conservative (he's backed by the N.R.A. and Kansas pro-life groups), Snowbarger was known as a tax cutter in the state legislature, and tried to push over $1 billion in state tax cuts during the last legislative session...