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...enough. The rest are either retiring and thus free to vote their conscience, or in a tight election fight and want to disarm their G.O.P. opponent. "By voting for this, I'll have more credibility to criticize Republicans if they continue to behave in a partisan fashion," said Ellen Tauscher, a savvy freshman from suburban San Francisco. "It doesn't appear to me now that these offenses rise to impeachable offenses," she added, but it is all her opponent will talk about. "I want to talk about why he opposes the assault-weapons ban and why he supports the flat...
...Clinton had not become President, Ellen Tauscher's political career could never have been born. California Congresswoman Tauscher represents a district that until 1992 did not exist, a swath of Bay Area suburbia that only decades ago was empty grassland. Not long ago, upscale, sun-drenched suburbs like hers were solid Republican territory. But that was before the religious right colonized the G.O.P. So the well-educated secularites of the suburban Bay began in the '80s to lean Democratic and were ripe for the wonkish Clinton. He was fiscally disciplined, culturally tolerant and enthusiastic about the high-tech industries...
...Tauscher joined the lesser-known New Democrat Coalition. By contrast with the Blue Dogs, the NDC's members hail not from rural districts but from suburban ones. While the Blue Dogs represent old industries, the New Dogs, as they are called, talk about the high-tech economy. They get excited about things like encryption law. Their constituents are essentially contented, libertarian and relativistic. While the Blue Dogs barely survived Clinton, the New Dogs pattern themselves in his image. They were his key allies behind enemy lines when he squared off against Richard Gephardt on the 1997 balanced-budget agreement...
...Republican] Newt Gingrich Ga. $5,625,093 [*] [Democrat] Richard Gephardt Mo. $3,249,849 [*] [Democrat] Charles Schumer N.Y. $2,859,681 [*] [Democrat] Michael Coles Ga. $2,344,912 [Democrat] Ellen Tauscher Calif. $2,100,833 ? [Democrat] Vic Fazio Calif. $2,054,088 [*] [Republican] Greg Ganske Iowa $2,019,302 [*] [Democrat] Joseph Kennedy Mass. $1,885,342 [*] [Democrat] Martin Frost Texas $1,768,731 [*] [Republican] John Ensign...
Underdog status never bothered Tauscher. The first in her family to attend college, she also became one of the first women to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1975. In California, after giving birth to a baby with respiratory ailments and a dislocated hip, she started a successful day-care-registry company. A moderate, Tauscher will have to win some crossover votes in this district where Republicans have a 3% voter-registration edge...