Original sentence: Another one of his early bills would have abolished the federal tax code at the end of 2001.He opposed ending the 1995 federal government shutdown.He took office on November 29, 1994 and was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses, never winning less than 60 percent of the vote in the heavily Republican Tulsa-based district.He was later criticized as anti-Catholic due to his line of questioning of a House of Representatives chaplain in 2000, though he denied this.Henry's support of cockfighting, garnering a last minute endorsement by rural cockfighting interests who turned out in large numbers as the legality of cockfighting was on the ballot.Largent introduced a bill that would ban adoptions by gay and lesbian parents in Washington, D.Largent's loss has been attributed to three factors:.The presence of a well-funded independent (a former Republican) on the general election ballot.When it ended he was one of the major players in an attempted coup against House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Edited sentence: After the Republicans suffered heavy losses in the 1998 midterm elections, Largent was one of a group of Republican congressmen who drove Gingrich into retirement.Another one of his early bills would have abolished the federal tax code at the end of 2001, a measure that made Republicans appear fiscally irresponsible in the press.He introduced a bill that would ban adoptions by gay and lesbian parents in Washington, D.He opposed ending the 1996 federal government shutdown, and when it ended was one of the major players in an attempted coup against House Speaker Newt Gingrich.He took office November 29, 1994 and was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses, never winning less than 60 percent of the vote in the heavily Republican Tulsa-based district.He was criticized as anti-Catholic due to his line of questioning of a House of Representatives chaplain in 2000, though he denied this.Henry's support of cockfighting, garnering a last minute endorsement by rural cockfighting interests who turned out in large numbers as the legality of cockfighting was on the ballot; and.The surprise gubernatorial loss came as a result of three factors:.the presence of a well-funded independent (a former Republican) on the general election ballot;