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DATE: SUNDAY, June 6, 1993                   TAG: 9306060145
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AUSTIN, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

TEXAS' NEW SENATOR A MESSAGE TO CLINTON

Kay Bailey Hutchison won a lopsided U.S. Senate victory Saturday, giving Texas two Republican senators for the first time in more than a century and turning up the heat on President Clinton.

With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Hutchison led Sen. Bob Krueger 1,011,005 votes, or 67 percent, to 488,950, or 33 percent.

"This election sends a very important message to the Congress and to the president," said Hutchison, who becomes Texas' first woman senator. "The people are tired of taxes. They want someone to get serious about cutting government spending and that's exactly what I intend to do."

Krueger, 57, who lost Senate races in 1978 and 1984, had been appointed by Gov. Ann Richards in January as Lloyd Bentsen's temporary replacement when Clinton named Bentsen U.S. Treasury secretary.

"I always said I wasn't a great politician. I guess I proved that," Krueger said late Saturday.

Hutchison, 49, made opposition to Clinton's tax plan, particularly its energy tax, a centerpiece of her campaign. Republicans said the election should be a wake-up call to Southern Democratic senators to part company with Clinton on those issues.

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