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...Stephen Solarz, D -- New York: $250 paid for parking tickets, $197,000 for legal bills, $72,370 refunded, $3,000 to other candidates...
Still, yesterday's panel indicated that manyhigh schoolers, who will be of age to vote in thenext year, have other priorities. The studentsgrew most enthusiastic when questioning Rep.Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) and former Rep.Timothy Solarz (D-N.Y.), both experts on foreignpolicy...
...Year of the Vanishing Man. After a series of scandals left Congress looking like a holding pen for unindicted criminals, the men began to flee as fast as they could get their resumes updated: 53 Representatives retired or just declined to run again. Others, like New York's Stephen Solarz, found the ground shifting beneath their feet as redistricting removed their old constituencies. One way or another, an empty space opened up, and that great sucking sound, as Ross Perot might have put it, was women rushing in to fill the vacuum...
Circumstances varied. Nine-term Democratic Representative Stephen Solarz of New York, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lost to Nydia Velazquez, former secretary of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the U.S. Solarz was partly the victim of a post-Census reapportionment that intentionally redrew his district to encourage Latino representation, which it did. But Solarz was surely hurt by his 743 overdrafts at the House bank. In Massachusetts, 127 bad checks helped do in Democrat Chester Atkins, who lost to a former county prosecutor...
...Capitol Hill to explain Washington's spineless policy toward Iraq prior to its invasion of Kuwait, he admitted, "I'm here to defend the policy. It didn't work. When you've got a policy that didn't work, it's not easy to defend." Says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz: "He always conveys the impression that he's speaking bluntly and candidly, and that goes a long...