Forty other Congressmen receive almost the same liberal political rating as Mr. Weiss, a 63-year-old eight-term Congressman from Manhattan's West Side who has long been a thorn in the side of many, and a special lightning rod to conservatives.

Thaddeus J. Dulski, an accountant and a former eight-term Congressman from the Buffalo area, died of leukemia Tuesday at the Roswell Park Institute in Buffalo.

Hardly a day goes by, she said, that she is not shadowed by the former eight-term Congressman, a man best known for bombast.

INCUMBENT Christopher H. Smith, (R), 43, eight-term Congressman from Washington Township.

In March, citing a rise in handgun-related violence, the eight-term Congressman announced that he was reversing his longstanding opposition to gun control.

Gordon Smith, the Republican president of the Oregon Senate, and Ron Wyden, an eight-term Democratic Congressman, emerged the winners on Tuesday from the nation's first mail-in Congressional primary elections.

Significantly, United States Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, a powerful leader of both parties, said today that he believed that Mr. Solomon, an eight-term Congressman, would be "the leading person, a very formidable opponent," if he runs.

A20 Edwards, eight-term Congressman, was beaten at the polls.

McCormick remained a bachelor until the age of 52, when he married the widow of Martin Olmsted, an eight-term Republican Congressman.

Mr. Synar, an eight-term Congressman closely allied with the House leadership and a backer of the White House on many key issues, lost in a runoff to a 71-year-old retired school principal, Virgil Cooper.