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Al Gore: Tennessee Republican
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Al Gore has spent his life straddling two worlds - Tennessee and Washington, high church and low, gut-level religion and Ivy League intellectualism. His Baptist roots are only one part of an intricate and eclectic spiritual life, one that from the start mirrored his larger experience of growing up in two places.
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Issue: Al Gore, recent recipient of an Oscar for his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in which man-made global warming is laid out to be the cause of catastrophic events, has a 10,000 square foot home that consumes large amounts of energy. Gore's average monthly electric bill in 2006 was more than $1359 according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research which it says is more in one month "than an average American family uses in an entire year." Gore's electricity and natural gas bills combined last year for his 20-room home and guest house were about $30,000.
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Gore served four terms in the House of Representatives, from 1977 to 1985. He worked hard to stay in touch with constituents, returning to Tennessee nearly every weekend to hold town meetings. In Washington, D.C., he first made a name for himself on the oversight and investigations subcommittee of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (later renamed Energy and Commerce). In the late 1970s he led numerous hearings on alleged corporate wrongdoing. Gore investigated Gulf Oil Corporation, which had participated in an international cartel to force up uranium prices. He held one of the first hearings on companies that dumped toxic chemical waste, and he was cosponsor of 1980 legislation that created the Superfund, a federal program that requires the cleanup of polluted sites.
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For years -- since college, anyway -- Al Gore had been telling friends that the very last thing he would ever do with his life was go into politics. That was fine for his father, he would say, but not for him. When he changed his mind, though, while he was in his second year of law school and working evenings at The Nashville Tennesseean, he kept it to himself.
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Albert Gore, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., was serving as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee. The senior Gore was to serve in the House and the Senate for nearly three decades. His mother was Pauline (LaFon) Gore. She had the distinction of being one of the first women to graduate from the law school at Vanderbilt University.
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On Tuesday, November 7, 2000, a presidential election was held featuring Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore, versus Republican candidate, George W. Bush. After the polls closed, it became apparent that the outcome of the very tight race would hinge on the results in Florida. At 2:16 a.m. early Wednesday morning, TV networks began declaring "Bush wins" based on their own Florida polling data and on each other's predictions. At 2:30 a.m., Al Gore telephoned Bush and offered his congratulations, conceding the election.
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