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...running for Congress. After his election, the family would go back to Carthage in the summers. As she grew older, Karenna often took messages from constituents who had missed a pension check or wanted Gore to call back and pray with them. Once someone stopped the 36-year-old Congressman in a grocery-store parking lot with 11-year-old Karenna at his side. The constituent wanted to thank him for making it easier to get an organ transplant. "I was at that moment struck by how he really impacted people," she says...
...heavily involved in the Internet and telecommunications, while TechNet is a little more software oriented. CapNet is more focused on local issues, like relieving traffic snarls near Dulles International Airport. "We push for policies that would help the region accommodate growth," says Vic Fazio, a former Democratic California Congressman and lobbyist who co-chairs CapNet. "We don't want the quality of life in northern Virginia to deteriorate to the point that you can't attract firms or workers...
RAUL FERNANDEZ, 34 He can put a dollar figure on how much Washington has changed in a decade. In 1988, while serving as an up-and-coming aide to then Congressman Jack Kemp, Fernandez told his boss he wanted to quit Capitol Hill and start his own computer company. Kemp, stunned that Fernandez could think about leaving the epicenter of Washington political life, offered a major incentive to stay: "Stick around, and I'm sure I can get you another $4,000." Quickly calculating that that would bring his salary up to about $40,000 a year, Fernandez walked...
...Each Congressman was trying to outmaneuver the other in what is something of a popularity contest. But the sponsors of the festivities had their eye on the bottom line. Which of the two pro-business legislators wins scarcely matters to them so long as they maintain access to the winner...
...Democrats will never be able to pull off a convention where the delegates are in their seats by 8 p.m. and cheer on command (8:04: applause for 30 sec.). Republicans acted out only once, when a handful of Texans bowed their heads in prayerful protest during a gay Congressman's speech on trade...