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...equally sharp peaks and valleys: the first state to enact term limits for state representatives in 1990, in 1992 it approved Measure 2, which rescinded state and local laws banning discrimination against gays. In this election, two House races will fill seats left vacant by long-time Representatives--Patricia Schroeder in the First and the Fourth's Wayne Allard, who is leaving to run for the Senate. That Senate seat is vacant as well, and both Allard and Democrat Tom Strickland have legitimate hopes of filling...
...award-winning law student and former Democrat, Rogers is now a rising star for the G.O.P.--he addressed the party's national convention this summer. And he may be moderate enough to have a chance in this heavily Democratic district, currently represented by Patricia Schroeder. He calls himself a fiscal conservative and supported the recent welfare-reform bill, but says he'd vote for Democratic initiatives like the Family and Medical Leave...
DIANA DEGETTE Democrat--Colorado 1st Abortion-rights supporter DeGette will wear the liberal mantle left by Pat Schroeder, who retires as the longest-serving woman in Congress...
...moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would not seek the Oval Office...
After 23 years in the House of Representatives, Colorado's Pat Schroeder says this term will be her last. Credited with pinning the "Teflon president" label on Ronald Reagan, Schroeder is the highest-ranking woman in Congress and the first to be appointed to the Armed Services (now National Security) committee. First elected to the House in 1972, Schroeder flirted with a presidential bid for three months in 1987 before dropping out. She becomes the latest in an increasing line of congressional incumbents who won't seek re-election next year. So far, seven Democrats and three Republicans have announced...