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McCollum is a tough-on-crime Republican in a district that contains the nation's family-values Mecca: Disney World. He has also backed a bill to apply the death penalty to drug kingpins and supported efforts to double U.S. border patrols--potent issues in Florida, and the eight-term incumbent apparently knows...
Roberts, called "the aggie" because of his focus on farm issues, is an eight-term incumbent whose Republican roots stretch back to the '50s--when his father was Republican National Committee chairman. Still calling himself an Eisenhower Republican, Roberts also supports all the planks of the Contract with America except term limits...
Running as an "Emercrat," Bill Emerson had been the first Republican to carry the Eighth District in 50 years. Lung cancer took the eight-term Congressman's life this year, and his widow is the G.O.P. nominee in a "special election" to finish his term, which officially ends in January. However, in a bizarre electoral twist, she is also running--as an Independent, on the same day--to win the seat for the next term...
Wesley prides herself on her "balanced perspective" on the issues. She denounces federal regulation of small business, but supports abortion rights, environmental protection, gun control and continued high levels of federal funding for education, Medicare and Social Security. Unfortunately for Wesley, more than perspective may be required to unseat eight-term conservative Duncan Hunter in this solidly Republican district...
...compared by his detractors to James Watt, Ronald Reagan's steel-eyed Interior Secretary. Some of Hansen's proposals in Congress, like opening up lands near Bryce Canyon National Park, have gone nowhere at all. But as the new chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Lands Subcommittee, the eight-term Congressman, who has been trying for years to reduce federal lands, has thwarted environmentalists hoping to designate 5.7 million acres of Utah as wilderness. A Hansen-sponsored bill that was adopted by his committee in August would limit the new wilderness to 1.8 million acres. It would keep much...