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Watts's power to be tested as he stands alone in House
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WASHINGTON -- J.C. Watts Jr. cannot be compared to anyone in the
106th Congress.
The Oklahoma representative will be the only black Republican in
the House or Senate, and when he is sworn in this week, he will be
the only black in the House leadership.
Watts stands alone on the ideological spectrum, as an African-
American who carries the civil rights struggle in one hand and his
own brand of born-again, conservative politics in the other.
"People want you to be beholden to the...
