"It's a sour subject," said Jo-Anne Goldman, a spokeswoman for Representative Samuel Gejdenson, a six-term Democrat and the dean of the Connecticut delegation.

Mike McIntyre, a six-term conservative Democrat from Lumberton, supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

In 2004, Lavoie ran for the 1st Suffolk & Middlesex district seat of the Massachusetts Senate as a Republican, challenging Robert Travaglini, a six-term incumbent Democrat.

Representative Pallone, a six-term Democrat from Long Branch, said that he is confident that he will have the support of party leaders at the end of the day.

Mr. Spano was elected to the State Assembly in 1978, defeating a six-term incumbent Democrat, Thomas McInerney, by 600 votes.

A six-term Democrat from Bozrah.

The 4th had been reconfigured as a black-majority district after the 1990 Census, and the previous incumbent, six-term Democrat Tom McMillen, had been drawn out of the district.

"It was the most roller-coaster session I've ever been through," said the six-term Democrat.

IN Connecticut's Second Congressional District the Republicans usually come up with one candidate to take on Representative Sam Gejdenson, the six-term incumbent Democrat.