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Seeking to keep the $750-billion Joint Strike Fighter project in California, Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) announced plans to introduce legislation that would force the Defense Department to study the cost of assembling the fighter in Palmdale. Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co. have design teams in Palmdale competing for the project, but have announced their intentions to construct the fighter in Texas and Missouri, respectively, if awarded the contract.

Joining the movement to split up the mammoth Los Angeles Unified School District, freshman Congressman Howard P. (Buck) McKeon has requested help from the new U.S. attorney general, Janet Reno, to ensure that any breakup plan will not violate school segregation laws.

After Republicans denied her the opportunity to hold an official congressional hearing, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) came to town anyway on Tuesday to hear college leaders press for more federal aid for higher education, especially for Latinos.

Buck McKeon, the Republican congressman-elect who will represent the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys and parts of the San Fernando Valley, will attend a congressional orientation program this week sponsored by the conservative Heritage Foundation rather than the traditional program at Harvard University. McKeon has been participating in orientation and House organizational activities in Washington for the last week along with his 63 Democratic and 46 Republican colleagues.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles), a national leader on health care, was paid $21,250 in honorariums last year by such groups as the American Hospital Assn. and the American Pharmaceutical Assn. He also took six expense-paid trips, including two to Israel.

With the dignity it offers patients as well as its cost-effectiveness, home care is the vanguard of health care, Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon and local nurses said at a Valley College rally Friday. From blood transfusions to dressing changes, more and more care for terminal and chronic illness is given in patients' residence, said Gina Aguirre, chairwoman of Valley College's health sciences department.

If U.S. Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon's first town meeting since being elected in November to represent north Los Angeles County was any indication, it's getting to be dangerous for congressmen to go out in public. A standing-room-only crowd of more than 200 Antelope Valley residents used McKeon's forum in Lancaster on Wednesday night to rail against President Clinton's tax proposals, complain about the continuing weak economy, and savage the Democrat-dominated Congress.

Independent congressional candidate Rick Pamplin on Thursday challenged his Republican opponent's self-description as a "small business owner" on the November ballot, but state officials said the deadline had passed for such complaints. Pamplin called on GOP nominee Howard P. (Buck) McKeon to "come clean with the voters and explain" that he co-owns 50 retail clothing stores and is board chairman of Valencia National Bank. "He is a banker and a corporate executive--period," Pamplin said. "Mr.

There will be one new face from the San Fernando Valley area appearing in Washington next year. Former Santa Clarita Mayor Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, a conservative Republican who says he is not a politician, easily won election Tuesday in the new 25th Congressional District with more than 50% of the vote.

As a first-time congressional candidate two years ago, Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) lined up with voters who were unhappy with long-term incumbents by backing a state ballot measure to limit terms in the House of Representatives to six years. But now, well into his first term, McKeon maintains that Californians made a mistake by approving Proposition 164.