Stephanie Herseth
Stephanie Herseth
Stephanie Marie Herseth Sandlinis an attorney who served as the Democratic U.S. Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district from 2004 until 2011. She was first elected to Congress in a special election in June 2004, and was re-elected three times before losing her seat in Congress to Republican Kristi Noem in 2010. She was the youngest female member of the House, and the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from South Dakota. Before her 2007 marriage to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 December 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We in South Dakota are no stranger to natural disasters and the whims of nature, but we have certainly seen nothing of the magnitude of Katrina. Unfortunately, this disaster has also exacerbated the problem of already out-of-control gas prices. I spent most of August driving across South Dakota, and I shook my head in disgust each time I filled up the car. Now, following Hurricane Katrina, a bad situation has gotten worse.
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Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.
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Families, businesses, school districts and farmers across South Dakota are feeling the effects of high fuel prices, and with our cold months closing in on us fast - and projections of a 70% increase in the price of natural gas - all South Dakotans may experience a significant impact on their budgets.
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We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
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on a number of issues important to South Dakota.
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My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.
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I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
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I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.
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I was particularly pleased to hear the chairman recognize the economic impact on the community was exacerbated by the rural installation Ellsworth is.
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I will be positive, will be respectful, always truthful and demonstrating that work ethic that we're all so proud about here in South Dakota.
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local partisanship in Congress was unbelievable; and let their be no doubt both parties were responsible for it.
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I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.
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Over the past several days I have followed closely the devastating and heartbreaking effects of Hurricane Katrina on our fellow Americans and I have asked myself how I can help. I hope this information is helpful to those who wish to help, and I join all South Dakotans in sending my thoughts and prayers to the victims of this disaster.
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I feel one of the factors in my victory, by a rather decisive margin, was the fact that I ran a positive campaign. I had to respond a couple of times and set the record straight about what my record is,