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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year career in elective office, the former Governor wants to return to Washington (he says he "got a lot of calls from Democrats" asking him to run) by building on his tried-and-true labor base and co-opting G.O.P. issues like the balanced budget, line-item veto and term limits. Whether he can get the statewide support he'll need is uncertain; he lost his bids for Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MAINE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Rehberg is running for the Senate by charging directly at incumbent Max Baucus. The state's lieutenant governor says Baucus has moved toward the right in an election-year ploy to earn conservative support, voting for the line-item veto and the balanced-budget amendment, both of which Rehberg also supports. With statewide name recognition, Rehberg should be more challenging than Baucus' 1990 opponent, who lost by 32 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MONTANA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...vigorous opponent of the Clinton Administration, Royce nevertheless celebrated the President's signing of the line-item veto as "another arrow in the quiver" in the fight against wasteful Washington spending. That kind of stand is why Royce is co-chairman of the Congressional Pork Busters Coalition, but he has taken fierce G.O.P. stands for victims' rights and against gun control, illegal immigration and taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...former FBI director William Sessions, this self-described "lifelong Republican" has the right family-values image: he is a former eagle scout who claims never to have missed a day of work. Sessions favors term limits and the line-item veto and has pledged to donate his congressional salary to the federal-budget-deficit trust fund any year Congress doesn't meet its balanced-budget goals. With Representative John Bryant (D) leaving to run for the Senate (he lost the primary), this may be Sessions' year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: TEXAS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

This popular incumbent requested $871 million in the fiscal 1997 budget for President Clinton's Summer Youth Employment Program, and has supported a 1996 bill to extend the presidential line-item veto to include corporate tax exemptions. In this Democratic district that gave Bill Clinton a 26% margin in 1994, Barrett has a good chance of continuing his liberal program in the 105th Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: WISCONSIN | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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