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The Battalion • Page 5
Reversal of Fortune
Republicans recapture
Senate after 8 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re
publicans captured control of
the Senate Tuesday, toppling
Democratic incumbents in Ten
nessee and Pennsylvania and
taking away seats in all regions
of the country. GOP candidates
chorused support for lower tax
es and less government.
Republican Oliver North lost
his costly, conservative crusade
in Virginia in one of the nation’s
most closely watched races,
falling to Sen. Charles Robb.
Sen. Jim Sasser, a Democrat
ic committee chairman and ally
of President Clinton, fell to Re
publican Bill Frist, a physician
and political newcomer who ran
the classic anti-incumbent’s
campaign in a year of voter
anger with the status quo.
And freshman Democrat
Harris Wofford lost to 36-year-
old GOP Rep. Rick Santorum
in Pennsylvania.
Eight years out of power, Re-
publicans added Democratic
seats in Ohio, Maine, Okla-.
homa, Arizona, Michigan and a
second Tennessee contest, part
of an impressive sweep of nine
races without incumbents on
the ballot.
The restored Republican ma
jority is virtually certain to in
stall Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas to
the powerful post of majority
leader for the final two years of
President Clinton’s term.
In an interview with C-Span,
he said the strong Republican
tide amounted to a “vote of no
confidence in the Clinton agen
da.” He said a GOP majority
would move to address voter
concerns over “big government,
House majority gives
GOP control of Congress
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big taxes, big regu
lation.”
‘The burden of
government is now
on them,” White
House press secre
tary Dee Dee Myers
said at midnight as
the scope of Democra
tic losses became
clear. Already, the im
pact on the admin
istration was
clear, as White
House Chief of
Staff Leon Panetta
said Clinton would pro
pose only “an incremen
tal change” in health AP/Bob
care next year, rather
than the top-to-bot-
tom overhaul that
died earlier this year.
The new Republi
can majority will
mean a sharp turn right-
ward at key committee
chairmanships: Sen.
Jesse Helms of at For
eign Relations; Strom
Thurmond at Armed
Services and Orrin
Hatch at Judiciary.
One likely early leg
islative proposal: a Con
stitutional amendment to
balance the budget, atop
the list of measures that
GOP candidates embraced
at a campaign rally held in
the shadow of the Capitol in
early fall.
In one bright spot for De
mocrats, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, the embodiment
of liberal incumbency,
won a sixth term handily.
Bianchini
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Republicans,
propelled by voter
anger over Democra
tic management of
Congress, won more
House seats Tues
day than in any year
since 1956 and drove
toward outright con
trol of the chamber
for the first time in
four decades.
The tide swept out
former Ways and
Means Committee
chairman Dan Ros-
tenkowski, a 36-year
veteran indicted in
May on federal corrup-
qoa/dv tion charges, and Judi
ciary Chairman Jack
Brooks, at 21 terms
■the longest-serving
lawmaker who sought
re-election.
Rostenkowski was
defeated by Republi
can Michael Flana
gan, an unknown
lawyer whose name
had recently been in
a trivia contest on a
Chicago radio sta
tion.
Another symbol of
Democratic power,
Speaker Tom Foley,
was fighting for politi
cal survival as voters
took out their anger
over business as
usual in Wash
ington. He
trailed in 11 of 12
counties in his eastern Wash
ington district.
Republicans captured 38 pre
viously Democratic seats, 18 of
them in southern and border
states. By contrast, Democrats
managed to pick up just two
GOP-held seats, in Pennsylva
nia and Rhode Island. To win
control of the House, Republi
cans needed a 40-seat pickup.
Republicans had won 199
seats and were leading in 34
others, a trend which would give
them 233, more than enough to
control the 435-seat House. The
199 victories were more than
the party had won since they
held 201 in the 85th Congress.
National exit polls conducted
by Voter News Service showed
that Republicans would seize
control of the chamber, a goal
that had eluded the party for 40
years. The polling also showed
about three-quarters of those
surveyed disapproved of Con
gress’ performance.
The last time voters turned
out a sitting speaker was before
the Civil War.
Foley, who has represented
eastern Washington in the
House for 30 years, was chal
lenged by George Nethercutt,
a GOP opponent with little ex
perience but independent
backing from interest groups
like the National Rifle Associ
ation and advocates of term
limits for politicians.
Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan.,
an 18-year veteran and chair
man of the Intelligence Commit
tee, was ambushed by Todd
Ti ahrt, a state senator who got
support from gun owners and
right-to-life groups.
Hutchinson
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sounds.’” *
He thanked supporters for their efforts
and told them that Tuesday’s showing still
whs cause for celebration. He wished Hutchi
son well, but warned her and her GOP col
leagues to deliver on their promises of fiscal
responsibility and fair representation of all
Texans.
“If they fail to do so and they fall short,
we’ll rise up and not fall short the next time,”
he said.
Hutchison said her re-election was a man
date for her to return to Washington to fight
for a balanced budget amendment, tax breaks
for homemakers, fewer regulations for small-
business owners, term'Timitations and a
strong national defense.
She also acknowledged that she was savor
ing the victory.
“Well, after four elections/in 18 months,
you know, it’s been a marathon and I am hav
ing a great time. You see the crowd here —
everybody that has been with me through re
ally some pretty tough times in politics,” she
said. “We knew that Texas was rough and
tumble, but it'was real rough and tumble.
And now we’re enjoying the victory and ready
to go to work.”
Hutchison finished first in the May 1993
special Senate election to choose a successor
to Lloyd Bentsen, then easily won the June
runoff against appointed Democratic Sen.
Bob Krueger with 67 percent of the vote. She
also breezed past six little-known opponents
in this year’s GOP primary.
An exit poll showed Hutchison dominat
ed Fisher throughout the state by tying to
gether a strong coalition of Republicans
and independents.
The poll was based on 1,594 interviews
Tuesday outside voting places around the
state conducted by Voter News Service, a co
operative of four television networks and The
Associated Press.
Among low-income voters, Hispanics and
blacks, Fisher appeared to run better than
Hutchison. Fisher, a one-time adviser to pres
idential candidate Ross Perot, didn’t appear
to energize the independent vote. Of those
who said they voted for Perot in 1992, less
than one-third backed Fisher.
•Preliminary results showed honesty was
the issue most often mentioned as mattering
most to voters, followed by health care and
President Clinton.
Hutchison, who earlier this year was ac
quitted of charges she misused the state
treasurer’s office, appeared to do slightly
better among voters who listed honesty as
key. She and Fisher appeared to split the
vote among those who cited health.care,
and a near three-to-one lead among those
who mentioned Clinton.
Among low-income voters, Hispanics and
blacks, Fisher appeared to run better than
Hutchison. Fisher, a one-time adviser to pres
idential candidate Ross Perot, didn’t appear
to energize the independent vote. Of those
who said they voted for Perot in 1992, rough
ly one-quarter backed Fisher.
Preliminary results showed honesty was
the issue most often mentioned as mattering
most to voters, followed by health care and
President Clinton.
Hutchison finished first in the May 1993
special Senate election to choose a successor
to Lloyd Bentsen, then easily won the June
runoff against appointed Democratic Sen.
Bob Krueger. She also breezed past six little-
known opponents in the GOP primary.
But Fisher predicted until the end that he
would win.
“I’ll be happy with either outcome. The
point is that we can’t count on the polls. We
have to count on the voters. The voters of
Texas make this decision,” he said.
Fisher and former Attorney General Jim
Mattox edged Congressman Mike Andrews in
the Democratic primary in March, then Fish
er beat Mattox in a bruising primary runoff
in April.
Both; Hutchison and Fisher have encoun-.
;i tered obstacles in life that they have turned
to their advantages.
Rejected by Houston law firms because of
her gender after earning a law degree from
the University of Texas Jn 1967, Hutchison
simply changed professions. She was hired as
a reporter for a Houston television station, of
ten covering the Texas Legislature.
In 1972, she became the first Republican
woman elected to the Texas House. She
lost the race for a U.S. House seat in 1982,
but returned to politics in 1990, becoming
state treasurer.
She held that post until becoming the first
woman senator from Texas.
Fisher is the son of immigrant parents.
He attended the U.S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis from 1967-69, leaving for Har
vard, where he graduated in 1971 with an
economics degree.
In 1975, he earned a master’s of busi
ness administration from Stanford. During
the Carter administration, Fisher served
as executive assistant to the U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury.
He then worked for the Wall Street in
vestment firm of Brown Brothers Harri-
man. In 1987, he formed Fisher Capital
Management, which manages more than
$300 million in assets.
Hutchison, a fiscal conservative, cam
paigned on a platform of implementing mean
ingful health-care reform, protecting the na
tional defense, controlling immigration and
reigning in the national deficit.
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