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Kerry, like many of his fellow Democratic congressional candidates, has tried to link his opponent to House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and the Republican-controlled 104th Congress...
...Cando, N. Dak. EDUCATION: Jamestown College, B.A., 1963; U of North Dakota, M.A., 1964; U of Oklahoma, Ph.D., 1969 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Byrd; five children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Economist, professor POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 85, Lewisville 75067. Tel.: 214-416-4907 Like House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Armey is a professor who started as a political outsider and finds himself at the center of the inside--House Majority Leader. Armey was one of the architects of the Contract with America and embodies the conservatism that brought about the Republican revolution: he's for free markets...
Nethercutt will go down in history as the giant slayer of the Republican revolution--the man who unseated Tom Foley, the first House Speaker in 132 years to lose an election. Rewarded with a seat on the Appropriations Committee, he has voted conservatively and authored a term-limits amendment. But thanks to a barrage of Democratic attacks, he's in a tight race with political newcomer Judy Olson. With constituents questioning Nethercutt's zero rating from the League of Conservation Voters, this election just might give the Democrats a chance to steal Foley's seat back...
Known as "the mom in overalls," Olson is making a strong run at freshman incumbent George Nethercutt, hoping to recapture former Speaker Tom Foley's old seat for the Democrats. Olson is basing her campaign on protecting education, Social Security, Medicare and abortion rights. A fourth-generation farmer and a recent President of the National Association of Wheat Growers, Olson wants a seat on the Agriculture Committee to help her fight for agricultural-research dollars...
James Quillen's retirement this year robbed the First of a wealth of congressional experience, and Jenkins is counting on precisely that factor to place him in the empty seat. The only Republican Speaker of the Tennessee House this century, Jenkins has been a state Representative, the state Commissioner of Conservation, a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors and a circuit-court judge--an impressive political track record...