Word: ruralism
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Nelson is another of the Midwestern Democrats who enjoy broad bipartisan support--so much so that Cornhuskers made him their first re-elected Governor in two decades. He says his experience as a successful state administrator, creating programs in health policy and rural development, would serve him well in the Senate, where his priorities would be education, the environment and the economy...
BILL BARRETT (R) District 3 (Rural west--Grand Island; North Platte...
...young girl in a rural Puerto Rican sugar-cane town, Velazquez wondered what lay beyond the mountains. In 1992 she became the first Puerto Rican woman in the House and has maintained a strong commitment to her Latino roots. She was arrested in 1994 while protesting President Clinton's repatriation of Haitian refugees, and has fought for a national strategy to combat financial crimes...
STEVE JAMES (D) District 22 (Rural east--Glens Falls; Saratoga Springs...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [Addressing Patrick Kennedy] "My wife lives alone five days a week in a rural area in upstate New York. She has a right to defend herself when I'm not here, son, and don't you ever forget...