41.   Despite their bitter Democratic primary battle, in which Meehan pummeled Atkins on term limits, the former congressman is taking a high-minded approach.

42.   Earlier this year, a commission headed by former congressman and cabinet secretary Jack Kemp recommended that the U.S. move to a single-rate system.

43.   Donnelly, a former congressman, is the US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, and Guzzi went on to become the Massachusetts secretary of state.

44.   Echoing Gingrich on Sunday was another conservative leader, Jack F. Kemp, the former congressman from New York and housing secretary.

45.   Esteban Torres, the spokesman for the National Hispanic Media Coalition and a former Democratic congressman from California, said that agreement did not address issues specific to Hispanics.

46.   Espy, a former Mississippi congressman who became the first black agriculture secretary, consistently has denied any wrongdoing and described the investigation as petty and partisan.

47.   Espy, a former Democratic congressman from Mississippi, is the second member of the Clinton Cabinet to resign but the first to depart under an ethical cloud.

48.   Even Jack Kemp, the former Republican congressman from Buffalo, said Giuliani needed to venture outside New York City.

49.   Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, a former Kansas congressman, both tried to repeal the Wright Amendment, without success.

50.   Fowler, a former congressman and senator from Georgia, took up his post last summer.