Just because you may want to know some day:
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) is so popular that in 2008 the town of Bethel, hoping for a record, built a 122-foot snow woman and named it "Olympia."
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) once threw a party for other Ben Nelsons. Twelve people from Nebraska, 10 from other states and one dog attended.
Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) is the only politician to ever defeat Barack Obama in an election -- a 2000 Democratic primary for the House.
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) is perhaps best known as the grandson of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney. As a youth, he spent summers working as a ball boy. He went on to play football at Washington and Jefferson College and Syracuse University.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick's (D-AZ) parents ran a general store in the middle of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. Kirkpatrick said the first words she uttered as a child were in Apache.
Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) was married in 1999 at Bally's casino in Las Vegas with 19 bridesmaids to attend to her -- among them Dina Titus, who became her Democratic House colleague in 2009.
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.