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Article: Roundup: Republicans, Democrats fight for Congress control inmidterm election
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 3, 2002
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Roundup: Republicans, Democrats fight for Congress control in
midterm election
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- As US voters are to go to the
polls in midterm elections on Nov. 5, control of the narrowly
divided House of Representatives and Senate is at stake.
All the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the
100 Senate seats will be up for grabs. In addition, 36 of the 50
governors are up for reelection.
At present, the Senate breakdown is 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats
and one independent. And one seat vacancy was created by the death of
Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone in a recent plane crash in
Minnesota.
In the House, Republicans have 223 of the 435 seats, ...