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...Portraying himself as the heir to retiring Senator Claiborne Pell's moderate politics, Reed says his commitment to education mirrors that of the man who created the Pell grant--in fact, he worked with Pell to raise the maximum grant to $4,500. From his seat on the House Judiciary Committee, Reed supported the Brady Bill and President Clinton's crime bill, which included the assault-weapons ban. He began this campaign as a prohibitive favorite, and kept the mantle into the home stretch...
Taking an unusual route into politics--as a landscape architect--Weygand has turned public service into a successful second career. Now he wants a seat in Congress and has a record of supporting small businesses, revitalizing the Rhode Island Small Business Advisory Council and pushing tax breaks that won him recognition as 1995 SBA Rhode Island Financial Advocate of the Year...
Wild is a physician with a law degree who hopes to leave both professions, for the moment, to fill the seat left open by Jack Reed's Senate bid. He signed an anti-tax pledge, and warns that Medicare must be restructured to be saved. The Second District, however, is traditionally Democratic and may not heed the call of the Wild...
...disagree, Spratt seems neither a loyal Clinton ally nor a blind follower of the Republican leadership. But since his narrow victory over conservative Larry Bigham in 1994, Spratt has supported much of the Contract with America and spent more weekends at home talking with constituents. He also--from his seat on the National Security Committee--helped secure more than $14 million in federal money for Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter...
...wife's cancer surgery--five-term House member Johnson finally threw his hat in the Senate ring. Reason? Because, he says, the once tolerable incumbent Senior Senator had taken to endorsing legislation that hurt the people of his state, specifically, the new telecommunications act. Giving up a safe seat in the House, the outspoken Representative should give Larry Pressler a run for his money...