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BIOGRAPHY OF CONGRESSMAN TOM LANTOS

Tom Lantos was elected to his eleventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2000. He was first elected to Congress in November 1980 by the lowest plurality of any Member of Congress that year - 46% to his opponent's 43%. In 2000, he was reelected with 75% of the vote.

An American by choice, Tom Lantos was born in , Hungary, on February 1, 1928. He was 16 years old when Nazi Germany occupied his native country. As a teenager, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground and later of the anti-Communist student movement. Tom was awarded an academic scholarship to study in the , and he arrived here in 1947. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the in and later HOME PAGE earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Cofigressman Tom Lantos with Grgt University of , Berkeley.

For three decades before his election to Congress (1950-1980), Tom Lantos was a professor of economics, an international affairs analyst for public television, and a consultant to a number businesses. He also served in senior advisory roles to members of the United States Senate.

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Contact Me "What renders truly special are the high Biography levels of integrity and trust he brings to his legislative work. He is a man driven by deeply held principles, a man guided in his duties by a profound sense of right and : Constituent Services wrong." -The Winchester Star, October, 2000 In the Newsroom

Voting Record I Frank R. Wolf was first elected to Congress in 1980 from 's 1 Oth Congressional District which Kids' Page includes the counties of Loudoun, Clarke, Frederick, Warren, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Places & Faces Page, and Shenandoah, parts of Fairfax, Prince William, and Rockingham counties, Federal Links and the cities of Winchester, Manassas, and Manassas Park. Congressman

Virginia Links Wolf is a member of the House Appropriations Committee which oversees the budgets of all federal agencies. He serves on three subcommittees — Tenth District Links Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, of which he is the Chairman, Transportation, and Treasury-Postal Service-General Government. In addition, i Privacy Statement he the Co-Chairman of the Congressional Caucus and serves on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the Helsinki Commission.

His committee assignments allow Congressman Wolf an ideal vantage point from which to address major concerns of his constituents. Congressman Wolf has been a long standing advocate issues such as regional transportation improvements, telecommuting, the healthy growth of the local and national economy, and fair treatment of active and retired federal workers. He has also worked tirelessly to preserve the essence of the American family, to fight against the destructive spread of gambling, and is renowned as a protector of human rights around the world.

During his tenure in Congress, Frank Wolf has worked to improve the efficiency and capacity of Virginia's transportation infrastructure. Wolf has championed projects such as the construction of additional lanes on 1-66 from the Capital Beltway to Route 29 at Gainesville, reduction of high occupancy vehicle requirements (HOV) on 1-66 to HOV-2 inside the Capital Beltway and construction of an interchange at 1-66 and the Route 234 Manassas bypass. Recognizing the importance of mass transit, Wolf has worked toward the completion of the 103-mile metro system, Express Bus Service in the Dulles Airport corridor, additional park-and-ride lots and improvements to the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) commuter rail system.

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the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a child safety video focusing on the proper use of child safety seats and air-bag restraints.

Wolf was a leader in the effort to transfer control of Washington Dulles and National airports from the federal government to a regional operating authority ~ a change that has helped to create thousands of new jobs and to make Dulles the fastest growing airport in America. He also worked for the passage of legislation to locate the planned extension of the National Air & Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport. The museum annex will bolster the local economy as a tourist attraction by attracting tens-of-thousands of visitors to the area each year as well as preserving historically significant aircraft.

Congressman Wolf has worked with local governments and communities to promote the region's industry by utilizing Virginia's two gateway airports to market scenic and historic attractions to domestic and foreign tourists. Recognizing the need to preserve the Shenandoah Valley's distinct Civil War heritage and expand tourism, Wolf introduced legislation establishing the "Shenandoah National Battlefields Historic District" protecting Civil War battlefields throughout the Valley. The legislation was supported by property owners, local elected officials, historians, preservationists and citizens alike and was signed into law in 1996.

In an effort to protect local jobs and keep a strong economy, Frank Wolf secured provisions for the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal to retain its U.S. Customs port of entry status permanently, enabling it to continue to attract international commerce. It was also through his efforts that the Winchester Regional Airport retained its Customs official.

In keeping with his commitment to preserve a high-quality federal workforce, Frank Wolf has worked for many family-friendly workplace policies such as child care, job sharing, leave sharing, flexiplace and telecommuting. He authored legislation to help establish several federal telecommuting centers located outside Washington, D.C., where employees can conveniently perform their regular duties and remain in contact with their offices in the nation's capital via computer, fax machine and telephone. The nation's first federal center is located in the city of Winchester. The pilot centers help alleviate traffic congestion, improve office productivity, and allow employees to spend more time with their families.

Citing the alarming increase in illegal drug use by teenagers, Wolf sponsored a summit for parents, educators and the law enforcement community to learn about the problem in Virginia. America's 'drug czar' Barry McCaffrey was the featured speaker. In addition, Wolf hosted a district-wide workshop to assist communities in developing local anti-drug coalitions and has worked with individual community efforts.

Recognizing the huge expansion of legalized gambling and local governments' increasing reliance on gambling revenues, Wolf introduced and passed into law legislation establishing the National Gambling Impact Study

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Commission. The nine-member panel will have two years to conduct an objective evaluation of gambling's effects within communities on crime, corruption, economies and families. The commission will produce a report on the effects of gambling which individual communities can use when making their own decisions about gambling.

Frank Wolf has worked to improve human rights and basic living conditions for refugees in many parts of the world, including El Salvador, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and . He has visited the People's Republic of China and met with Premier Li Peng to discuss human rights, religious freedom, illegal exportation of prison-made goods, and other issues tied to the granting of most favored nation (MFN) trade status to China. Wolf also visited Beijing prison No. 1, where at least 40 Tiananmen Square demonstrators have been imprisoned. In addition, Wolf visited political prisoners in the gulag, Perm Camp 35, during its last year of existence.

Wolf visited a Serb-run prison camp inside Bosnia-Hercegovina to observe human rights conditions during the Bosnian War and led Congressional efforts to withdraw MFN trade status from both Serbia and Croatia, he has also worked to call attention to the human rights abuses and religious persecution in Romania, , Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, East Timor, Vietnam, and .

Congressman Wolf has a long-standing reputation for providing excellent constituent services. The publication, The Almanac of American Politics 1992, said Rep. Wolf "maintains a crackerjack constituency service operation." His district offices in Herndon and Winchester specialize in working with all federal departments and agencies to assist citizens in solving a wide range of individual problems.

Frank Wolf was born in 1939 in , , where he attended public schools. He received his B.A. degree from Penn State University in 1961 and his law degree from Ggorgetown University in 1965. Prior to his election to Congress, he was employed on a congressional staff, at the Department of the Interior, and as an attorney. He lives in Vienna with his wife Carolyn. They are the parents of five children.

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Rep. Jose E. Serrano (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary, and related agencies of the exclusive and powerful Mouse Appropriations Committee, represents New York's 16th Congressional District in the South Bronx.

Serrano, who has been in Congress for nine years, also serves on the Subcommittee on Transportation Appropriations, which funds investments in the Nation's infrastructure.

Throughout his 25 years of public service, Serrano has pursued a consistent legislative philosophy. He believes the primary roles of government are to provide a climate in which all people treated equally and compete based entirely on their ability in an economy in which employment, housing and health care are available; and to care for those in need, especially our most vulnerable, the children, the disabled and our elderly.

Congressman Serrano was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on October 24, 1943, but when he was seven years old his family moved to the South Bronx, where he attended public schools and completed courses at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He served in the 172nd Support Battalion of the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Fort Wainright, Alaska during the Vietnam war.

Before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Serrano had a distinguished sixteen-year career in the New York State Assembly, including six years as chairman of the Education Committee. He was first elected to the State Assembly in!974. While serving as Education Committee Chairman. Serrano authored legislation that doubled state funding for bilingual education programs in 125 languages and provided $50 million in funding for New York City to combat the school drop-out crisis. Working to better the future of children has been very satisfying for Serrano.

In march of 1990, Serrano was elected by an overwhelming majority to represent New York's 18th Congressional District, which included the communities he had represented in the Assembly, in a special election, succeeding former Rep. Bob Garcia. Serrano is the most senior member of Congress born in Puerto Rico.

Serrano was re-elected to serve a full term in 1990. The first bill of which Serrano was prime sponsor (P.L. 101-600), which provided funding for successful school drop-out prevention programs, was signed into law by President George Bush in November, 1990.

During the 102nd Congress, Serrano sponsored the Voting Rights Improvement Act, mandating bilingual registration and voting, and the Classroom Safety Act. to provide funds for programs to discourage violence and protect students and teachers. Through his first full term, Congressman Serrano served on the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Small Business.

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In 1993, Serrano was appointed to the Appropriations Committee, which is responsible for approving the expenditure of federal funds and for applying fiscal discipline to the federal budget process.

Serrano initially served on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, and subsequently on the Subcommittees on the Legislative Branch, the District of Columbia, and Agriculture.

Congressman Serrano was instrumental in the allocation of $7.5 billion for child nutrition programs and $28 billion for food stamps. $3.3 billion for Head Start, $543.2 million for AIDS prevention and $111.5 million for tuberculosis control grants.

In 1992, Serrano was elected by his colleagues to serve a two-year term as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

His vigorous leadership of the caucus was responsible for passage of several bills of special interest to Hispanics and other minorities. The caucus was also credited with defeat of a number of bills whose purposes have been described as "immigrant-bashing" and successfully opposed efforts to make English the nation's official language, which some saw as intolerant of cultural diversity in our society.

In 1994, Serrano sponsored the Bilingual Education Act, parts of which were incorporated into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and the Minority Health Opportunity Enhancement Act, which would amend the Public Health Service Act.

Also, Serrano co-sponsored the School-To-Work Act. to help students move from high school into the workforce. The Act encourages schools and local businesses to develop partnerships that will expose students to work experiences and career opportunities. The Appropriations Committee provided an increase of $180 million for the School-to-Work program.

Serrano also supported increases of $260 million in women, infants, and children supplemental feeding, $334 million for elementary and secondary education, $283 million for the Goals 2000 Education Reform, $210 million for Head Start, $178 million in dislocated worker assistance, $297 million in homeless assistance, and $1.3 million in rental assistance.

In 1995, Serrano was appointed to the prestigious Judiciary Committee, and its Subcommittee on the Constitution. He was also named to the Democratic Leadership as Vice Chairman of the Democratic Steering Committee, a position he continues to hold. The Steering Committee assigns all Democratic members to committees.

The House Democratic Caucus reappointed Serrano to the Appropriations Committee in March of 1996, and he resigned from the House Judiciary Committee to accept the new committee seat.

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Serrano is the architect of the English-Plus Resolution, which expresses the sense of Congress that the Government should pursue policies to encourage residents of the United States to become fully proficient in English, and to learn or maintain skills in languages other than English to conserve and develop the Nation's linguistic resources.

The English Plus Resolution also urges governments to provide services in languages other than English to facilitate access to essential functions of government, promote public health and safety, protect individual rights and promote equal educational opportunity. In 1996, Serrano offered the resolution as a substitute to an English-only measure on the House floor, and won support of 178 members.

During the first session of the 105th Congress, Serrano became Ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative Branch and third ranking Democratic member on its Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies. On the first day of the 105th Congress, Serrano introduced 16 pieces of legislation on education, nutrition, crime prevention, and other issues.

Serrano fought vehemently against budget measures proposed by Republicans which would have balanced the budget on the backs of poor working families, children, the ill, the elderly, and immigrants. Serrano argued, among other things, that the proposed budget would provide $91 billion in tax breaks, while cutting $115 billion in Medicare payments to hospitals and health care providers.

Also during the 105th Congress, Serrano sponsored a bill to provide demonstration grants to establish clearinghouses for the distribution of information on youth crime prevention to community-based organizations. Serrano also sponsored a measure that would create an income tax checkoff for a United States Library Trust Fund, to provide the financial support for public libraries and public school libraries.

During the 106th Congress Serrano has introduced:

• a bill that would label food products grown on land on which sewage sludge has been applied; • a bill to permit Members of the House to direct donation of their used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools; • a Constitutional amendment to repeal the limit on Presidential terms; • legislation to provide incentives for use of clean-fuel vehicles in empowerment zones and enterprise communities; • The National Police Training Commission Act of 1999, to establish a bipartisan commission that would focus on the adequacy of police recruitment, training, assignment and enforcement of use-of-force policies, especially in big city police departments; • The Cuban Food and Medicine Security Act of 1999, bipartisan legislation to permit the sale of food, including agricultural products, medicines and medical equipment from the United States to Cuba.

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House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Member of Congress, represents the 22nd District of Texas, which includes Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris Counties.

Elected to the third highest leadership post in the House Republican Conference, as House Majority Whip, Congressman Tom DeLay is responsible for making certain that the Republican legislative agenda is completed. His role in the process is to "grow the votes" necessary to insure final passage of legislation. The Congressman's leadership and hard work paid off dividends when Republicans fulfilled their campaign promises with the successful conclusion of the "Contract with America."

Congressman DeLay also serves on the powerful Appropriations Committee, the committee that produces all spending legislation for the House of Representatives. A committed fiscal conservative, he has worked hard to insure that every taxpayer's dollar is spent wisely and efficiently.

By consistently voting to reduce federal spending, he has earned the "Taxpayers' Friend" award from the . For his conservative voting record, he has received 100 percent ratings from The New American and the Christian Voice magazines. He has also received the Watchdog of the Treasury's "Golden Bulldog Award" and the

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coalition of Peace Through Strength's "National Security Leadership" award. He has also consistently received high marks for his pro-business stance from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Congressman DeLay started his legislative career in 1978, when he became the first Fort Bend County Republican ever elected to the Texas House of Representatives. In 1984, he moved to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he has played an active leadership role. Before becoming Majority Whip, he served as Republican Conference Secretary, as Deputy Whip, and as Chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

A native Texan, Congressman DeLay was born in Laredo in 1947. After attending Baylor University, he graduated from the University of Houston in 1970. He then owned and operated a small business in Texas. Active in civic affairs, he has helped raise funds for many charitable and community groups over the years with his unique auctioneering abilities. In keeping with he and his wife Christine's special interest in children and family-related issues, he serves on the Advisory Board of Child Advocates of Fort Bend County. He and Christine have one daughter, Danielle, who is a graduate of Texas A&M University. They are members of the First Baptist Church Sugar Land.

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