September 22, 2000
Key Advocate for Science Research Faces a Tough Battle in the House
Many legislators in Congress prepare for Capitol Hill by working as lawyers, or by holding state and local offices. Rep. Rush D. Holt, a Democrat from New Jersey, is an exception. Before being elected in 1998, he spent two decades teaching and working as a physicist -- first at Swarthmore College, and later at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, in Plainsboro, N.J.
Representative Holt, who never held an elected office before winning the
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