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...drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...
Ensign has one of the largest war chests of any House freshman. Nearly 20% of his contributions came from the gaming industry, which the former casino manager has defended from his coveted Ways and Means seat. In June Ensign led a rank-and-file G.O.P. effort to convince party leaders to remove Medicare from welfare-reform proposals, a move that helped win Clinton's signature on the controversial welfare bill...
...years since being elected to fill Al Gore's vacant Senate seat, Thompson's star has risen quickly. He sees himself as a "citizen Senator" and has tremendous populist appeal, both because of his acting background and because his legislative priorities reflect such sensibility: term limits, campaign-finance and juvenile-court reforms, and biannual budgets for Congress. With this style, Thompson is one Senate incumbent who can run as an outsider...
James Quillen's retirement this year robbed the First of a wealth of congressional experience, and Jenkins is counting on precisely that factor to place him in the empty seat. The only Republican Speaker of the Tennessee House this century, Jenkins has been a state Representative, the state Commissioner of Conservation, a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors and a circuit-court judge--an impressive political track record...
...this campaign, but is trying to shed a zealous image to protect his narrow 1994 victory. Tennessee's Third District ranks fifth in the country in federal funding, and Wamp has juggled protection of that money with balancing the budget, a goal he says is worth losing his seat over. But the Department of Energy--a department on the G.O.P. hit list--spends $2 billion a year in the district...