Word: republican
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Whisper it low -- bipartisanship is coming back in fashion. Just when Capitol Hill looked as if it couldn't get any more riven over the Clinton impeachment process, the Republican leadership has made a number of concessions to disgruntled Democrats -- and a tiny knot of centrist lawmakers from both sides of the highly partisan House Judiciary Committee are making a show, at least, of working together...
...Mike, Robbie and Chip. In the Minnesota gubernatorial race it was Mike, Teddy and Skip--as in Mike Freeman, son of former Governor Orville; Ted Mondale, son of former Vice President Walter; and Skip Humphrey [3], son of former Vice President Hubert. Skip won. He'll face Republican Norm Coleman and Reform candidate Jesse ("the Body") Ventura...
...LONG, SISTERHOOD Representative Linda Smith [5] won the Washington State Republican Senate primary, and will face Democratic incumbent Patty Murray, making theirs the only Senate race with female opponents. The mud is expected to fly over women's rights. Smith says she is antifeminist: "I'm a traditional woman. I'm not mad at anyone...
...former chief executive of suburban Boone County is running as fast as he can away from Clinton, even though Lucas' own polls show that over the past few months, he has steadily gained on his opponent, Republican state senator Gex Williams, and now enjoys a five-point lead. Lucas is on tough terrain for a Democrat: the district voted 49% to 41% for Bob Dole in the 1996 election, and it has been represented in Congress by beloved Republican Jim Bunning, who this year announced his own bid for the Senate...
Democrats need Conyers to find courage of a different kind this time around. The Judiciary Committee's only veteran of the Nixon wars, the 69-year-old is the committee's ranking Democrat and will spearhead the party's defense against the Republican campaign for impeachment. The natty, unflaggingly liberal Conyers meets one requirement for a bulwark: he openly loathes Kenneth Starr; recently he called the prosecutor one of "the enemies of the nation." Conyers' potential value to the White House extends further. As dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, he could help marshal critical black support for Clinton...