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...National Taxpayers Union named Smith the "most fiscally conservative" member in the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. This summer he proposed a Social Security bill that would let workers divert some of their taxes to private accounts and reduce their retirement benefits accordingly, as well as increase the retirement age. Smith has a good shot at re-election in the conservative Seventh...
...terms Talent has established himself as a leading fiscal conservative, serving as class whip in both the 103rd and 104th Congresses. During that time he has also served on three committees, including National Security, where he looks out for his district's McDonnell Douglas Corp., which employs thousands of his constituents. An early welfare-reform proponent, in 1994 he proposed to cut off funds for unmarried mothers younger than...
Parker--who had one of the most conservative Democratic voting records in the House, opposing everything from gun control and abortion to the 1990 civil-rights bill--always seemed better suited to the G.O.P. And midway through the 104th Congress he became a Republican. Rewarded with a seat on the House-Senate conference committee, Parker may still be penalized by voters if his midstream switch changed expectations about his conservatism...
...first Democrat to win the Second District House seat in 78 years, in 1990. While a member of the House--before being beaten by the Second's current Representative, Charles Bass--he co-authored the Congressional Accountability Act, the first Contract with America law passed by the 104th Congress. An unusual campaigner, in his bid for the Senate Swett has spent days working jobs from lobsterman to factory worker to Dunkin' Donuts employee in order to get to know his constituents...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Republicans in the 104th Congress have let American children down. They have made our kids the sacrificial lambs at the altar of the wealthy and the privileged...