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JESSE JACKSON JR.: A Different Vision
Nichols, John | September 18, 2000 issue

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With their party just six seats short of regaining control of the House, most U.S. Congressional Democrats have a hard time talking these days about anything but candidate recruitment, marginal districts and the by-any-means-necessary fight to regain the powerful committee chairs, grand appropriations budgets and corner offices that were surrendered six years ago to Newt Gingrich's Republican minions. At a time when Democrats are bending every effort to forge an image of unity, the man with perhaps the most identifiable name in the party's House caucus is cracking the facade.

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LEGISLATORS -- United States; CAUCUS; LEGISLATIVE bodies; POLITICAL parties -- United States; POLITICS, Practical; UNITED States
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