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McCain also needed the support of the committee's ranking Democrat, Ernest Hollings, the six-term Senator from tobacco-friendly South Carolina. Hollings, 76, is up for re-election this year in what has become one of the most reliably Republican states in the Union. For him, backing any anti-tobacco bill is perilous. But Hollings believes in the goal of stopping kids from smoking. After a meeting on March 25, he agreed to support McCain's bill. In return, McCain will fly to South Carolina this week to explain the deal to a meeting of 4,000 tobacco farmers...
RETIRING. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, 45, six-term Massachusetts Congressman and eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy; from politics. He plans to run the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. that his brother Michael oversaw until his death...
Cuban-born Birtley, who immigrated to the U.S. at age 20, wants to unseat six-term incumbent Thomas Manton to "improve the quality of life" in the Seventh. She signed a "taxpayer-protection" pledge to fight income tax increases, and supports increased choice in education. Birtley is pro-choice, but says she would have supported the ban on partial-birth abortion if it had included a provision for women whose lives were at stake...
Though Astoria, Queens, was home to the xenophobic Archie Bunker on All in the Family, Manton's is one of the most racially inclusive districts in the U.S. Consequently, the six-term incumbent's interests are diverse, including legislation to encourage U.S. companies to invest in India, to test convicted rape offenders for HIV, and to include taggants in gunpowder to help trace explosives. This middle-class, urban area leans Democratic, and Manton held onto his seat in 1994 by an overwhelming...
...Six-term incumbent Gordon narrowly avoided becoming a casualty of the G.O.P. takeover in 1994; this year he faces Steve Gill again. Gordon, a fiscal conservative who twice voted for a balanced-budget amendment, emphasizes his popular fight against the sale of local lakes to hydroelectric interests and his support for the minimum-wage hike...