Republicans consider loss of majority status

 
By Chris Casteel
Published: September 25, 2006

WASHINGTON - When U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas first was elected to Congress, he was, briefly, a member of the minority Republican Party.

That was in the spring of 1994, just a few months before Republicans regained power in the House for the first time in 40 years.

Since then, Lucas, R-Cheyenne, has climbed the ladder on the House Agriculture Committee and now is chairman of an important subcommittee, one that o...


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