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In conservative-led House, GOP moderates struggle to be heard
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Apr 21, 2004 01:28pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Apr 21, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | Rep. Amo Houghton is a throwback: an unassuming, old-money multimillionaire known around Congress for being a very nice guy. Just as unusual, he's a Republican moderate.
So fellow moderates were dismayed by the decision of the 77-year-old not to seek re-election to the upstate New York seat he has held since 1986. Houghton is the former CEO of Corning Inc., the glassware company founded by his family in 1851.
"We feel the loss greatly," said Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del., president of Republican Main Street Partnership, a centrist group that Houghton founded in 1998. "There are not that many of us." |
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