Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nalepa is no stranger to the House race or his opponent, William Lipinski, who defeated him in 1994 by only four percentage points. Nalepa believes Lipinski is "little more than a seat warmer." If he can overcome a lackluster fund-raising effort and convince voters that the Republican revolution is...
After an independent study rated him the biggest budget cutter in the Michigan delegation in 1993 and 1994, Camp went on to become a member of the post-G.O.P. revolution group of conservatives that dominated the 104th Congress. He supported a balanced-budget amendment and opposed the assault-weapons...
Horn has waited four years to avenge her loss to Jim Talent, after redistricting drained the Second of Democrats. Though the reminted district remains Republican (Talent won the 1994 race with 67% of the vote), Horn is counting on disenchantment with the G.O.P. revolution. And after raising six children as...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I had a sense that the mood of the country was really changing. The Republican revolution was perhaps frightening people a little bit with the drastic measures they seemed willing to take to balance the budget."
In 1994 the moderate Gilman voted with President Clinton 71% of the time and was the only House Republican to vote against the balanced-budget amendment. He still sides with the G.O.P. on cutting government regulation and outdated federal programs, but Gilman has sometimes found it hard being a moderate...