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With a resume lined with lobbying successes for high-tech constituents, Eshoo will be tough to beat. A member of the Commerce Committee, which oversees bills relating to electronics and biotechnology, she drafted the Online Parental Control Act of 1996. A further irritant to Ben Brink's online challenge, Eshoo won this year's Semiconductor Industry Association's Congressional Leadership Award...
Oregon's larger towns--including Eugene, Corvallis and Portland--are enclaves of high-tech industry, university students and environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield...
BORN: April 23, 1951, Johnstown EDUCATION: U of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, B.S., 1972; U of Pittsburgh, D.M.D., 1976; Virginia Tech, M.P.A., 1988 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Dentist; health-care consultant POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1990, 1994 ADDRESS: 1905 Bates Drive, Johnstown...
Harman's victories have been close--chillingly so in 1994--but even her opponents agree that in guarding the district's main economic interests, defense and high-tech industries, "No one," as an aide to a G.O.P. Congressman said, "is more aggressive and tenacious, and that's putting it nicely." Also helpful are her deep pockets--Harman spent $2.3 million in 1992, fourth highest for a U.S. congressional race, and $1.3 million...
BORN: Oct. 26, 1938, Stamford EDUCATION: Tarleton State Junior College, 1957-59; Texas Tech, B.S., 1961, M.S. 1962 FAMILY: Wife, Cynthia; three children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Cotton farmer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1978- ADDRESS: Box 1032, Stamford...