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| | Senator Daniel K. Inouye's Biography |
 | | Elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 1998. | | | Elected to the United States Senate in 1962, Inouye is currently serving his seventh consecutive term in the Senate. | | | He received that medal from the President of the United States on June 21, 2000. |
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| | Senator Daniel K. Inouye's Biography |
| | Elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 1998. | | | Elected to the United States Senate in 1962, Inouye is currently serving his seventh consecutive term in the Senate. | | | When Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959, Daniel Inouye won election to the United States House of Representatives as the new state's first Congressman. |
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| | California: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In the 1980s and 1990s, California elected Republican governors—George Deukemejian (1982, 1986) and Pete Wilson (1990, 1994)— before the Democrat Gray Davis was elected in 1998 (and reelected in 2002). | | | Any food from the state of California in the United States, or food prepared in the Californian style | | | Federal courts found much of Proposition 187 unconstitutional; the appeal of their rulings was dropped in 1999, at a time when the state's economy had rebounded and a Democratic administration was in Sacramento. |
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| | John McCain Online Research :: Information about John McCain |
| | Considered a maverick United States Republican Party, McCain has been a United States Senate from Arizona since 1987, winning re-election in U.S. Senate election, 1992, U.S. Senate election, 1998, and U.S. Senate election, 2004. | | | When John Jacob Rhodes, the longtime United States House of Representatives from Arizona's First Congressional district, announced his retirement, McCain ran for the seat in 1982 and won it. | | | John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an United States. |
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| | U.S. Government Documents - Legislative Branch Resources |
| | United States Senate Election, Expulsion and Censure Cases, 1793-1990. | | | This selective bibliography, compiled by the United States Senate Historical Office, is designed to provide general readers and scholars with a guide to articles, documents, and books on the institutional development of the Senate. | | | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America. |
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| | Tom Daschle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In U.S. Senate election, 1992 and U.S. Senate election, 1998, South Dakotans re-elected Daschle to the Senate by overwhelming margins. | | | From January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, Daschle became Senate Majority Leader for the first time, as the Senate was evenly divided with 50 members from each major party, and as long as Al Gore was Vice President of the United States, this gave the Democrats the majority in that chamber. | | | In 1978, Daschle was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served four terms and quickly became a part of the Democratic leadership. |
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| | Senator Daniel K. Inouye's Biography |
| | Elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 1998. | | | Elected to the United States Senate in 1962, Inouye is currently serving his seventh consecutive term in the Senate. | | | When Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959, Daniel Inouye won election to the United States House of Representatives as the new state's first Congressman. |
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| | Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Confirmations Of Dee Drell And Richard Bennett |
| | Bennett was chosen by President George H.W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland and the Senate confirmed him without dissent. | | | s confirmation vote on the nominations of Dee Drell to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and Richard Bennett to the United States District Court for Maryland, Senate Democrats again demonstrate their bipartisanship toward consensus nominees. | | | Bennett served as Special Counsel to the Government Reform and Oversight Committee in 1997 and 1998 with Republican U.S. Representative Dan Burton, who was investigating campaign contributions during the 1996 election. |
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| | U.S. Senate election, 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The U.S. Senate election, 1996 was an election for United States Senate which coincided with the re-election of Bill Clinton as president. | | | special election due to resignation of Robert Dole to pursue the presidency -- next regular election held in 1998 | | | Because of the staggered nature of the Senate, some of the alignment shift of 1994 carried over to this year, even though the Republicans lost seats in the House. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_election,_1996
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| | Wendell_Ford |
| | Ford served as United States Senate Majority Whip from 1991 to 1995 and as United States Senate Minority Whip from 1995 to 1998. | | | Senator Marlow Cook, the Republican incumbent whom Ford defeated, gracefully resigned his seat early after the election so that Ford would have a higher standing in seniority in the Senate. | | | Ford served a state senator from 1965 until his election as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1967. |
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| | Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1878 - 1950) |
| | On January 12, 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman ever elected to the United States Senate after winning a special election to fill the remaining months of her husband's term. | | | I feel a special bond with Hattie Caraway because I followed in her footsteps to become the second woman to serve Arkansas in the U.S. Senate in 1998. | | | While in the Senate, Hattie Caraway in 1933 became the first woman to chair a Senate Committee and in 1943 became the first woman to take up the gavel on the Senate floor as the Senate's presiding officer. |
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| | Tom Daschle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | From January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, Daschle became Senate Majority Leader for the first time, as the Senate was evenly divided with 50 members from each major party, and as long as Al Gore was Vice President of the United States, this gave the Democrats the majority in that chamber. | | | In U.S. Senate election, 1992 and U.S. Senate election, 1998, South Dakotans re-elected Daschle to the Senate by overwhelming margins. | | | Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947), known as Tom Daschle, was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota and the Senate Minority Leader. |
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| | Joe Hoeffel |
| | Joseph M. Hoeffel (pronounced "Huffle") (born September 3, 1950) is a current member of the United States House of Representatives, who is running for the United States Senate seat from Pennsylvania (see U.S. Senate election, 2004). | | | He was originally elected to the House in the election of 1998, after serving as a state representative from 1977 through 1984, and as a county commissioner from 1991 to 1998. | | | Hoeffel is a member of the Dean Dozen, a group of candidates for local and national office (although numerically far more than twelve, but grouped in twelves) endorsed by former presidential candidate Howard Dean and his Democracy for America organization. |
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| | Mitch McConnell - SourceWatch |
| | Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), born Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr., was "unananimously elected" Majority Whip of the United States Senate on November 12, 2002. | | | Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, McConnell served as County Judge-Executive in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1978 until he was sworn in to the United States Senate on January 3, 1985."[4] (http://mcconnell.senate.gov/biography.htm) | | | McConnell "first served in leadership as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1998 and 2000 election cycles. |
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| | Encyclopedia: John Edwards |
| | A Democrat, Edwards won election to the U.S. Senate in 1998 by defeating the favored incumbent Republican, Lauch Faircloth. | | | John Edwards may refer to one of the following persons: John Edwards, a former US Senator from North Carolina, and was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the U.S. presidential election, 2004 John Edwards, a US Representative from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1842 John Edwards... | | | Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is a former United States Senator from North Carolina. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/John-Edwards
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| | Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1878 - 1950) |
| | On January 12, 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman ever elected to the United States Senate after winning a special election to fill the remaining months of her husband's term. | | | I feel a special bond with Hattie Caraway because I followed in her footsteps to become the second woman to serve Arkansas in the U.S. Senate in 1998. | | | After Hattie Caraway's path-breaking career concluded in 1945 when then- Representative William Fulbright beat her in the primary, her Senate colleagues honored her for her service with a standing ovation on the Senate floor. |
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| | Carol Moseley Braun |
| | In 1992, Carol Moseley Braun became the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate; she was narrowly defeated for a second term in 1998. | | | Following her election loss, she was appointed United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, a position she held from 1999 to 2001. | | | Carol Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947), American politician and lawyer, was the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate (representing Illinois). |
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| | The Sacramento Observer - Online Edition |
| | If successful in the November general election, Kirk will succeed Phil Gramm, one of the most conservative members of the Senate. | | | Morales is a teacher and political populist who won the Democratic nominations to the state Senate in 1996 and to the House in 1998. | | | Kirk says his primary issues in the Senate would be health care and education, both of which disparately affect Black people. |
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| | Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive |
| | United States Election Archive: Full details of all presidential elections 1788-2004; Senate elections 1914-2001, 1998 and 2000 Congressional elections. | | | Constituency-level maps of Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, India and the United States, colour-coded by party. | | | 1998 and 2002 legislative elections; 1999 and 2004 presidential elections |
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| | Russ Feingold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1982 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate where he served until his election to the United States Senate. | | | Feingold won the Democratic Senate primary against two formidable opponents, then produced several offbeat political ads emphasizing Kasten's lack of availability to the people of Wisconsin during the general election. | | | Feingold continued to oppose soft money during his 1998 reelection campaign, in spite of his opponent throwing millions of dollars of attack ads against him. |
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| | The Green Papers: What's New? |
| | Contested major races: for Statewide Elective Office--- for Governor: Democrats, Republicans (incumbent); for Congress of the United States (109th Congress)--- for United States Senate (Class 3 seat): Republicans (incumbent); for U.S. House of Representatives: CD 1: Democrats, Republicans (incumbent); CD 2: Democrats, Republicans (incumbent). | | | Nebraska Governor Mike Johanas (Republican, first elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002) was nominated by President George W. Bush for Secretary of Agriculture on 2 December 2004 and approved by the U.S. Senate viva voce (by voice vote) on 20 January 2005. | | | Governor James E. "Jim" McGreevey (Democrat) has resigned and State Senate President Richard James Codey (Democrat, Essex County, NJ) has taken over as the State's "acting Governor" (New Jersey being one of the few States in the Union without a Lieutenant Governor). |
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| | Encyclopedia: John Edwards |
| | John Edwards may refer to one of the following persons: John Edwards, a former US Senator from North Carolina, and was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the U.S. presidential election, 2004 John Edwards, a US Representative from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1842 John Edwards... | | | A Democrat, Edwards won election to the U.S. Senate in 1998 by defeating the favored incumbent Republican, Lauch Faircloth. | | | Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is a former United States Senator from North Carolina. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/John-Edwards
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| | LSS Newsletter Legislative News |
| | "Straightforward and strategic voting in the elections for the Swiss Council of States in 1995," H. Kriesi, 17 (March 1998): 45-60. | | | "Electoral competitiveness and the voting decision - Evidence from the pooled Senate election study," J.W. Koch, 20 (December 1998): 295-312. | | | "Legislator gender and legislator policy priorities in the Argentina chamber of deputies and the United States House of Representatives," M.P. Jones, 25 (Winter 1997): 601-612. |
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| | Mitch McConnell - SourceWatch |
| | Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, McConnell served as County Judge-Executive in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1978 until he was sworn in to the United States Senate on January 3, 1985."[4] (http://mcconnell.senate.gov/biography.htm) | | | McConnell "first served in leadership as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1998 and 2000 election cycles. | | | Senator McConnell was first elected to the Senate in 1984. |
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| | California Politics and Government |
| | But in the November, 1998, general election California voters will choose a new Governor, new occupants of other statewide offices, such as Attorney General and Controller, one of California's two United States Senators, a full eighty members of the Assembly, and one half of the Senate. | | | The 1998 general election comes at a time when California's political institutions, and most especially the Legislature, are widely criticised by journalists, analysts, and the public at large. | | | California Courts: The Most Powerful Branch of California Government? |
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| | Wackipedia [valleygirl] - Andrew_Johnson |
| | Johnson was like totally an unsuccessful candidate for election to like totally thuh like United States Senate in 1868 an like to like totally thuh like House of like Representatives in 1872. | | | Johnson was like totally thuh like first President to like totally be impeached, an like thuh like only one until thuh like impeachment of like Bill Clinton on like December 19, 1998. | | | He was like totally elected as like like a Democrat to like totally thuh like United States Senate an like served from March 4, 1875, until his death near Elizabethton, Tennessee, July 31, 1875. |
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| | .: Illinois : U.S. Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald (R) Biography - United States Senate :. .: All American Patriots :. |
| | From 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1998, Fitzgerald was an Illinois state senator, representing the northwest suburbs of Chicago. | | | Peter G. Fitzgerald was elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1998 at age 38. | | | Fitzgerald practiced corporate law for ten years in Chicago, first in private firms and later as general counsel for a publicly traded bank holding company. |
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| | CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY V. JONES |
| | For example, in one 1997 survey of California voters 37 percent of Republicans said that they planned to vote in the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary, and 20 percent of Democrats said they planned to vote in the 1998 Republican United States Senate primary. | | | This case presents the question whether the State of California may, consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, use a so-called “blanket” primary to determine a political party’s nominee for the general election. | | | Republican Party of Conn., 479 U.S. We have considered it “too plain for argument,” for example, that a State may require parties to use the primary format for selecting their nominees, in order to assure that intraparty competition is resolved in a democratic fashion. |
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| | Clinton, Hillary Rodham - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Clinton, Hillary Rodham |
| | Clinton, Hillary Rodham (rŏd`əm), 1947–, American lawyer and political figure, wife of U.S. President Bill Clinton Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson Clinton), 1946–, 42d President of the United States (1993–2001), b. | | | In 2000, Clinton won election as a Democrat to the U.S. senate from New York, becoming the first wife of a president to win election to public office. | | | Less publicly involved in policy issues after that program failed to gain support, she won sympathy for her support of her husband during the Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky scandal (ləwĭn`skē), sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998–99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate. |
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