Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extinct, like "our meat-eating friend Tyrannosaurus rex." A self-described "Daschle Democrat" (after the state's moderate Junior Senator), he also supported the minimum-wage increase, the earned-income tax credit and portable insurance, and has a good chance of replacing Tim Johnson, who is giving up the seat to run for the Senate...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It's essential for this seat to come back to the American people to take Congress from Newt Gingrich, the extreme right and Brian Bilbray...
...third run for what is now an open seat, this deep-pocketed candidate (an heir to the Annenberg fortune, he put $400,000 into his primary contest) emphasizes his devotion to public service. A moderate, he wants to protect tax credits for small businesses and loans for needy college-bound kids, as well as preserve Medicare and Social Security benefits...
...this seat since 1980, Dreier has been a guiding but moderating voice in the Republican revolution. He fought to streamline Congress as co-vice chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and has burnished his reputation as a red-tape hawk by overhauling the House committee system for Newt Gingrich--something that had not been done in 50 years...
Though respected as a forceful advocate for the poor, minorities and women, the freshman Jackson-Lee was undercut by the Supreme Court's June decision to invalidate her district. She is expected to win this race to keep Barbara Jordan's old seat, but Jackson-Lee sees the high court's ruling as a setback for civil rights...