41.   Democrats are also making strong bids for at least two congressional seats and for control of the state assembly.

42.   Democrats nationwide bucked a historic trend in which the party that controls the White House loses large numbers of congressional seats in off-year elections.

43.   Dilan, a lackluster City Councilman, has charged that Towns is a do-nothing legislator waiting to take over the Congressional seat of his father, Representative Edolphus Towns.

44.   Doggett chose a race for a vacant, solidly Democratic congressional seat over a tough fight for re-election to an increasingly Republican court.

45.   Democrats picked up congressional seats in Oklahoma and New York, while Republicans grabbed seats away in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Connecticut, New York and Virginia.

46.   Dogged by questions of his future, Kennedy had recently told colleagues that he would run for reelection to his congressional seat.

47.   Downstate certainly does not deserve to lose something as important as a Congressional seat to an old and unfair political code.

48.   Earlier this year, she considered running for the East Texas congressional seat Jim Chapman, a Democrat, will vacate at the end of this year.

49.   Feeney is widely believed to be eyeing a congressional seat next year.

50.   Florida, Georgia and Arizona will add two congressional seats, in addition to Texas.