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...JAMES SAXTON (R) District...
Although essentially a mainstream Republican, Saxton has split with many in his party by voting often in favor of gun control and environmental protection. He once tried to stop G.O.P. efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act and called on President Clinton to stop the dumping of dredged silt off the New Jersey coast. This formula has increased his margin of victory in each of the past three elections, making the well-financed Saxton a formidable incumbent...
...version of the act, which must still pass both full houses of Congress, by making sure that hearings showcased the hardships of property owners and "ordinary people.'' Another successful tactic was to make an end run around the subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, which is headed by Jim Saxton of New Jersey, a moderate Republican who favors the law. Instead Young formed an endangered-species task force and turned it over to Representative Richard Pombo, a fourth-generation rancher from California's Central Valley who is at war with the Federal Government over land-use regulations. At Young...
...Saxton '97 can sympathize. After taking over HORIZONS, a pre-professional organization for students of color, she realized that "it's hard to get people involved....[It's] hard to get students to look past tomorrow and plan down the road for the next two months." Saxton notes that it is crucial to not only make an organization viable and legitimate, but to convince students that it is. For Saxton, the recent Career Forum was an opportunity to spread the word...
...basically going to make contacts for my club, Horizons, which is an organization for pre-professional minorities," said Amy H. Saxton '97. "And I want to check out study[ing] abroad for myself...