State Senator GEORGE RUNNER (Republican, California): And I'm Senator George Runner, from the 17th District.

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To qualify, the nine-term congressman needed to submit 1, 176 signatures from voters in the newly drawn 17th Congressional District.

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Traficant, now in his ninth term representing Ohio's 17th Congressional District, has said repeatedly he had expected to be indicted.

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He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1977, serving California's 16th (now 17th) District until Clinton appointed him to head the Office of Budget and Management in 1993.

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The week of September 17th, the Wilmington, NC, federal district court held a long-awaited evidentiary hearing in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald.

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Located in the Steglitz district, the garden dates back to the 17th Century, when it was used to grow herbs for the royal family.

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