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Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1962, where she was a cheerleader in the 1960s, and a sister of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1967. Following her graduation from law school, she was the legal and political correspondent for KPRC-TV in Houston. La Marque (formerly Lamarque) is a city in Galveston County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Cheerleading is recreational activity and sometimes competitive sport involving organised routines including elements of dance and gymnastics to encourage crowds to cheer on sports teams. ... Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ) is an international fraternity for women that was founded on April 28, 1867 in Monmouth, Illinois at Monmouth College as I.C. Sorosis. ... The University of Texas School of Law is an ABA-certified American law school located on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... KPRC-TV is a television station based in Houston, Texas. ... Houston redirects here. ...

In 1972, Hutchison was elected to the Texas State House of Representatives from a district in Houston, of which she was a member until 1976. She was vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1976 to 1978. She was a candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives in 1982 for the Dallas-based 3rd District, but was defeated in the primary by Steve Bartlett. She temporarily left politics and became a bank executive and successful businesswoman. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a U.S. government independent organization responsible for investigation of accidents involving aviation, highway, marine, pipelines and railroads in the United States. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dallas redirects here. ... Steve Bartlett (born September 19, 1947) is a former U.S. congressman and mayor of Dallas, Texas. ...

Election to the Senate

Hutchison was elected Texas State Treasurer in 1990 and served until June 1993 when she ran against Senator Bob Krueger for the right to complete the last two years of Lloyd Bentsen's term. Bentsen had resigned in January 1993 to become Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. Krueger had been appointed by Texas Governor Ann Richards to fill the seat until a replacement was elected. This article is about the year. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Bob Krueger Robert Charles Krueger (born September 19, 1935), American politician, is a former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas, and a member of the Democratic Party. ... Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. ... John W. Snow, the current Secretary of the Treasury. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and teacher from Texas. ...

A field of 24 candidates sought to fill Bentsen's unexpired term, in the May 1993 special election. [1]. The top two vote-getters were Hutchison (593,338, or 29 percent) and Krueger (593,239, also 29 percent). Two conservative Republican congressmen, Joe Barton of Dallas (284,135 or 13.9 percent) and Jack Fields of Houston (277,560, or 13.6 percent) split pro-life voters (although Hutchison is pro-life she does not advocate over-turning Roe v. Wade). Their combined vote was 561,695, still a third place finish. A fifth candidate, Democrat Richard Fisher, polled 165,564 votes (8.1 percent); the remaining candidates had about 6 percent combined. Joe Linus Barton (born September 15, 1949 in Waco, Texas) is a Republican, representing the Texas Sixth Congressional District (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985. ... · · Nickname: Big D Location in the state of Texas Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Mayor Laura Miller Area    - City 997. ... Houston redirects here. ... Pro-life is a term representing a variety of perspectives and activist movements in bioethics. ... Holding Texas laws criminalizing abortion violated womens Fourteenth Amendment right to choose whether to continue a pregnancy. ...

During the campaign, in January, the Houston Chronicle reported that both Hutchinson and Fields had promised to serve a maximum of two six-year terms in the Senate as part of her support for term limit legislation for members of Congress. In April, the Dallas Morning News reported that Hutchison had repeated her pledge to serve only two terms in the U.S. Senate, if elected, and had also said term limits ought to cover all senators, including Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), who had been elected in 1984 and re-elected in 1990. (He would stay in the Senate until 2002.) The term-limits legislation never passed, and Hutchison has said that she would not leave the senate in the absence of such legislation because doing so would unilaterally hurt Texas at the expense of other states in the seniority-driven Senate. William Philip Phil Gramm (born July 8, 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia) served as a Democratic Congressman (1978-1983), a Republican Congressman (1983-1985) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985-2002). ...

After the initial voting, most of the Barton and Fields voters switched to Hutchison, who won the runoff, 1,188,716 (67.3 percent) to 576,538 (32.7 percent). Lower turnout in the runoff resulted in a decrease in Krueger's vote total, by 17,000. Hutchison became the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Following Hutchison's election in 1993, Texas has had two sitting Republican U.S. senators.

Facing criminal charges: allegations, indictment, prosecution and acquittal

Shortly after the special election victory, Travis County authorities, led by district attorney Ronnie Earle, raided Hutchison's offices at the State Treasury looking for proof of allegations that Hutchison used state equipment and employees on state time to help with her campaign. She was indicted by a grand jury in September 1993 for official misconduct and records tampering. The Travis County Courthouse Travis County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... Ronnie Earle Ronald Dale Ronnie Earle (born February 23, 1942) is the district attorney for Travis County, Texas. ... A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, which determines if there is enough evidence for a trial. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

The case against Hutchison was heard before State District Judge John Onion in February, 1994. During pre-trial proceedings, the judge announced that he would make no rulings on the admissibility of evidence prior to the trial. The evidence was to include data from tapes maintained by Treasury employees. Hutchison had allegedly given instructions that the data be deleted from the department's computers (during the course of the trial, these data -- enclosed in a pizza box -- were turned over to the Travis County DA's office).

This was a ruling DA Earle considered critical. Earle felt that it was a technique designed to torpedo his case, because Onion could rule mid-trial that certain important evidence was inadmissible under the Texas Rules of Evidence[2].

Following Onion's ruling, Earle declined to proceed with his case, though he had intended to continue the case later (possibly before a more favorable judge), Onion declined to give Earle that opportunity.

The judge instead swore in a jury and immediately ordered the panel to acquit Hutchison when no evidence had been presented to them by Earle. The acquittal barred any future prosecution of Hutchison[3].

Later that year, Earle granted reporters access to the files he had amassed to make his case against Hutchison[4].

Subsequent Elections

In 1994, the election for her first full term, Hutchison received 2,604,281 votes (60.8 percent) to 1,639,615 votes (38.3 percent) cast for Democrat Richard Fisher, the son-in-law of the late Republican Congressman James M. Collins, who had also run in the special election the year before. James Mitchell Jim Collins (April 29, 1916 - July 21, 1989) was a Republican who represented the Third Congressional District of Texas from 1969-1983. ...

In 2000 she defeated Democrat Gene Kelly, with 4,082,091 (65 percent) to 2,030,315 (32.2 percent). She carried 237 of the 254 counties, including one of the most Democratic counties, Webb County (Laredo). This was the only time since the early 1900s that Webb County had supported a Republican candidate for any office on a partisan ballot. More than four million Texans voted for Hutchison that year -- still the record highest number of actual votes ever cast in Texas for a candidate. This article is about the year 2000. ... Webb County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... Laredo redirects here. ...

Senate career

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In June of 2000, Hutchison and her Senate colleagues coauthored Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate. In 2004, her book, American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country, was published.

Since 2001, Hutchison has been Vice-Chairwoman of the Senate Republican Conference (caucus), making her the fifth-ranking Republican in the Senate behind (as of 2005) Majority Leader Bill Frist, Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and conference chairman Rick Santorum, and Policy Chairman Jon Kyl. McConnell has suggested that Hutchison might become conference chairwoman in 2007. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... William Harrison Bill Frist (born February 22, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee. ... Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr. ... Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958), commonly known as Rick Santorum, is the junior United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ... This page is about the current Arizona Senator; for his father, a U.S. Representative from Iowa, see John Kyl; for a U.S. Representative from Mississippi with a similar name, see John Kyle. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hutchison serves on the Commerce Committee, Appropriations Committee, Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and as a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. During her time in the Senate, Hutchison has been a strong supporter of NASA. NASA logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...

Hutchison is considered to be moderate on abortion issues, compared to most elected Republicans from Texas. Although she has served on the Advisory Board of The Wish List (Women in the Senate and House) Political Action Committee, which contributes to pro-choice female Republican candidates for Congress, she is no longer on the board [5] and the PAC has not endorsed her in 2006. [6]. In the past years NARAL has given her ratings of 0%, 7%, 20%, and 0%. [7] NARAL Pro-Choice America (pronounced Nay-ral) is a United States group that favors the right to legal abortions and engages in political action to oppose restrictions on what it portrays as womens right to abort. ...

While in the Texas House of Representatives (1973 to 1977), Hutchison worked with Sarah Weddington, the attorney who won the Roe v. Wade case, to protect rape victims from having their names published. She has since supported some abortion rights, but not federal funding for them. She has, however, endorsed such abortion restrictions as parental notification laws [8] and in 2006 sponsored legislation to prevent minors from being transported across state lines to subvert such laws. Roes attorney, Sarah R. Weddington Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she represented Jane Roe (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. ... Holding Texas laws criminalizing abortion violated womens Fourteenth Amendment right to choose whether to continue a pregnancy. ...

National Journal ranked Hutchison as follows in its 2004 rankings, which are based on various key votes relating to economic policy, social policy, and foreign policy: National Journal is a weekly magazine about American politics and government, published by National Journal Group, Inc. ...

Economic: 26% Liberal, 73% Conservative; Social: 38% Liberal, 60% Conservative; Foreign: 0% Liberal, 67% Conservative.

2006 re-election campaign

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Speculation began in 2004 that Hutchison would run for Governor of Texas in 2006, challenging current Governor Rick Perry in the Republican primary. However, on June 17, 2005, Hutchison announced that she would seek reelection to the Senate instead, reneging on an earlier promise to a two-term limit. The Texas Senate election of 2006 will be held on November 7, 2006. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In politics, Governor of Texas is the title given to the chief executive of the state of Texas. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Richard Rick Perry (b. ... For political parties named Republican Party in other countries, see Republican Party. ... Primary is an adjective meaning first or first hand. It may refer to: Primary education or Primary school Primary care. ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hutchison's Democratic opponent in the November 2006 general election is former Houston attorney and mediator Barbara Ann Radnofsky, who has not previously run for public office. Radnofsky received 44% of the vote in the primary and won a runoff election against Gene Kelly with 60 percent of the vote. Kelly was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee against Hutchison in 2000. Libertarian Scott Lanier Jameson is also running for the seat. A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ... Nickname: Bayou City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Area    - City 1,558 km²  (601. ... Barbara Anns Campaign Website Barbara Ann Radnofsky is a well-known Houston attorney with 25 years of experience at Vinson & Elkins, LLP (V&E), a pre-eminent firm founded in 1917 during the Texas oil boom and World War I. The firm flourished as the United States emerged as...

Radnofsky faces an uphill battle in a state that has not elected a Democrat statewide since 1994. In the August Rasmussen poll, Hutchison led her opponent by 30 percentage points - 61 to 31. [9]. The Survey USA Poll, which is not a head-to-head matchup, but only lists approval ratings of incumbents, finds Hutchison with a 61 percent approval rating. [10] The Zogby poll, in contrast, shows a closer result, but still shows Hutchison with a 17.3 percent lead - the highest of any incumbent Republican Zogby tracks. [11]. The authors state "...Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who got 65 percent of the vote in 2000, is a safe bet to win a third term." 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Other

In February 2006, TheWhiteHouseProject.org[12] named Hutchison as one of its "8 in '08", a group of eight female politicians who could possibly be elected President in 2008.

Hutchison's name has been circulated as a possible Vice-Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket. Her strong record as a conservative, female politician from the South could induce the GOP to add her name to the ticket in an effort to balance any perceived 'gender-gap' between the parties, particularly if Hillary Clinton were to get the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 2008. Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ...

Hutchison is also considered a possible candidate for the governorship of Texas in 2010.

Hutchison's parents were Kathryn Bailey and Allan Bailey, an insurance agent. She has two brothers, Allan and Frank. She divorced her first husband, a medical student.

Hutchison has two adopted daughters (Kathryn Bailey and Houston Taylor) with her second husband,[13] Ray Hutchison, whom she married in 1978. He has two grown daughters, Brenda and Julie, from a previous marriage. Ray Hutchison, also a former member of the Texas Legislature and unsuccessful candidate for Texas governor in 1978, is a senior partner with the law fim of Vinson & Elkins. Ray Hutchison is a prominent Dallas, Texas, attorney, who served in the state House of Representatives in the 1970s and is married to the states senior Republican senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison. ... Vinson & Elkins (or V&E) is an international law firm with offices in Houston, Dallas and Austin, Texas, Beijing, Shanghai, London, Tokyo, New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and, as of September 13, 2006, Hong Kong. ...

Senator Hutchison and her family have their primary residence in Dallas, Texas. She has a second house in Virginia, where she lives when the Senate is in session, and where her children attend school. [14]

She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation or MMRF is a non-profit organization based in New Canaan, Connecticut dedicated to accelerating the search for a cure of multiple myeloma. ...

References

• Selby, W. Gardner. "Earle lost Kay; can he beat DeLay?". Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 2, 2005. pp. A1, A8-A9.
• Barone, Michael. The Almanac of American Politics, 2006. "Kay Bailey Hutchison," pp. 1580-1581.

External links

• Kay Bailey Hutchison's U.S. Senate site
• Official campaign site
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Partisan anti-Hutchison site