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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ellen O'Kane Tauscher</b> (November 15, 1951 – April 29, 2019)<sup id="cite_ref-TB_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-TB-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> was an American politician and member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> who was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California's 10th congressional district</a> from 1997 until her resignation in 2009 upon joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. State Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Department</a>, where she served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State_for_Arms_Control_and_International_Security_Affairs" title="Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs</a> until February 2012. She then served as Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense at the State Department until August 31, 2012.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Board_of_Regents" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California Board of Regents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California Board of Regents</a> and, in February 2018, became chairman of the Board of Governors for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Security" title="Los Alamos National Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Alamos National Security</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence Livermore National Security</a>, a consortium led by the University of California Board of Regents. She also served as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Vice Chair of the Student and Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Regents.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While in Congress, Tauscher was a leading centrist Democrat, and the chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Democrat Coalition</a>, a caucus of 65 moderate Democrats in the House of Representatives. She also served as vice-chairwoman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Leadership Council</a> from 2001 to 2005.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After leaving the State Department, Tauscher assumed a number of publicly held corporate and non-profit board positions, including serving on the boards of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_International" title="Edison International" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edison International</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_Edison" title="Southern California Edison" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern California Edison</a> (EIX) in Rosemead, California, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHealth_Technologies" title="EHealth Technologies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">eHealth</a> (EHTH) in Mountain View, California. She served on the Board of Advisors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SpaceX</a>, the Board of Directors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems" title="BAE Systems" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">BAE Systems</a>, INC., NTI, and the Executive Committee of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council" title="Atlantic Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Atlantic Council</a>. She served as vice chair of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/brent-scowcroft-center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security</a> and was a member of the Board of Regents of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California" title="University of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California</a> system.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Early_life_and_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political career</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Career_after_politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career after politics</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Political_views" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political views</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Abortion</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Gun_rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gun rights</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Iraq_war" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Iraq war</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#LGBT_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">LGBT issues</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Personal_life_and_death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life and death</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ellen Tauscher was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark,New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Newark, New Jersey</a>, the daughter of John E. O'Kane, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_steward" class="mw-redirect" title="Union steward" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">shop steward</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Food_and_Commercial_Workers" title="United Food and Commercial Workers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Food and Commercial Workers</a> union at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShopRite(United_States)" title="ShopRite (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ShopRite</a> store in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_City,New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Union City</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> and his wife Sally, a secretary for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh%26_McLennan_Companies" title="Marsh & McLennan Companies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marsh & McLennan</a> in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-wedding2009_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-wedding2009-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> She graduated in 1974 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton_Hall_University" title="Seton Hall University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Seton Hall University</a>, where she obtained a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Science</a> degree in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_childhood_education" title="Early childhood education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">early childhood education</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-calstate.edu_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-calstate.edu-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She then worked as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_banker" class="mw-redirect" title="Investment banker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">investment banker</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bache%26_Co." title="Bache & Co." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bache & Co.</a> and, at age 25, was the youngest and one of the first women to become a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Stock Exchange</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-calstate.edu_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-calstate.edu-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> She also served as an officer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="American Stock Exchange" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Stock Exchange</a> from 1979 to 1983, after which she worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns" title="Bear Stearns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bear Stearns</a> and a subsidiary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Burnham_Lambert" title="Drexel Burnham Lambert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Drexel Burnham Lambert</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-contra_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-contra-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1989, Tauscher moved to California and later founded the ChildCare Registry, the first national research service to help parents verify the background of childcare workers.<sup id="cite_ref-contra_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-contra-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> She also published <i>The ChildCare Sourcebook</i> and headed the Tauscher Foundation, which provided funds for elementary schools to buy computers and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access" title="Internet access" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internet access</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-women_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-women-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_career">Political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before running for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a>, Tauscher was active in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> circles as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundraiser" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fundraiser</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> and also <b>chaired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dianne Feinstein</a>'s successful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1992 United States Senate elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1992</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1994 United States Senate elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1994 Senate campaigns</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1996, Tauscher was recruited to run against two-term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P.Baker" title="William P. Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Baker</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California's 10th congressional district</a>, which included several wealthy suburbs in the East Bay. During the campaign, Tauscher emphasized balancing the federal budget, her support for business, the environment, and the military.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost.com_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-washingtonpost.com-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> She also charged that Baker was too <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a> for the district, particularly given his opposition to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abortion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gun control</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-content.time.com_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-content.time.com-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> She narrowly defeated Baker, claiming victory by a margin of 1.45% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> The race was ranked as the fourth most expensive of that year's 435 House races.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher was re-elected in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1998 United States House of Representatives elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1998</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2000 United States House of Representatives elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2000</a> against vigorous Republican opposition. While the 10th district was once considered "solid Republican territory,"<sup id="cite_ref-content.time.com_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-content.time.com-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> most Bay Area Republicans tend to be more moderate than their counterparts in the rest of California and since the 1990s have been increasingly willing to support Democrats at the national level.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2000, during the statewide redistricting process, some of the more Republican-leaning parts of Tauscher's district were removed and replaced with more Democratic territory near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,California" title="Berkeley, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Berkeley</a> and in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_County,California" title="Solano County, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Solano County</a>. She was subsequently re-elected to four more terms, facing no substantive opposition and receiving more than 65 percent of the vote after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2002 United States House of Representatives elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2002</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the House of Representatives, Tauscher served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="United States House Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armed Services Committee</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Transportation and InfrastructureCommittee</a>.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> She chaired the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Armed_Services_Subcommittee_on_Strategic_Forces" title="United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Strategic Forces subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which oversees the country's nuclear weapons stockpile, missile defense program, and the national labs. Tauscher was the only member of Congress who had two national labs in her district, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the California campus of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia_National_Laboratories" title="Sandia National Laboratories" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Sandia National Laboratories</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. At the time she left Congress, Tauscher also was the senior member from California serving on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Transportation_Subcommittee_on_Highways_and_Transit" title="United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Highways and Transit" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Highways and Transit subcommittee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Transportation_Subcommittee_on_Aviation" title="United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Aviation subcommittee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Transportation and Infrastructure committee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> From her position on the Transportation Committee, Tauscher brought $33 million to her district for transportation and infrastructure projects.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 282px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CSIS-US-Nuclear-Weapons-Modernization-29-Jun-2017.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("/w/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/magnify-clip-ltr.svg?8330e"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_Mount&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adam Mount (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Adam Mount</a>, Tauscher, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca_Hersman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rebecca Hersman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rebecca Hersman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Harvey" title="John R. Harvey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John R. Harvey</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori_Schake" title="Kori Schake" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kori Schake</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies" title="Center for Strategic and International Studies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_on_Nuclear_Issues" title="Project on Nuclear Issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Project on Nuclear Issues</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughshares" title="Ploughshares" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ploughshares</a> Fund panel discussion, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.csis.org/events/debate-us-nuclear-weapon-modernization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Debate: U.S. Nuclear Weapon Modernization</a>", Washington, D.C., June 29, 2017</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 18, 2009, President Obama nominated Tauscher to the position of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State_for_Arms_Control_and_International_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security</a>. She was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a> on June 25, 2009, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unanimous_consent" title="Unanimous consent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">unanimous consent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> Notwithstanding her appointment, confirmation and acceptance, she served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_Pro_Tempore" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker Pro Tempore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Speaker Pro Tempore</a> on June 26, 2009, when the House narrowly passed (219–212) a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap-and-trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap-and-trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cap-and-trade</a> global warming bill.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Tauscher resigned her seat on June 26, 2009, after voting was finished on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Clean_Energy%26_Security_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="American Clean Energy & Security Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Clean Energy & Security Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Her resignation necessitated a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_California%27s_10th_congressional_district_special_election" title="2009 California's 10th congressional district special election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">special election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> Tauscher served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State_for_Arms_Control_and_International_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security</a> until her appointment on February 6, 2012, as Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense. Tauscher retired from the State Department on August 31, 2012.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Under Secretary of State, Tauscher successfully negotiated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START" title="New START" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New START</a> treaty with the Russian Federation in March 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> The first major agreement signed with Russia in nearly 20 years, the treaty was signed by Presidents Barack Obama and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Medvedev" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitri Medvedev" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitri Medvedev</a> on April 8, 2010, and ratified by the U.S. Senate on December 22, 2010. Tauscher represented the United States at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NPT_Review_Conference" title="2010 NPT Review Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.N. NPT review conference</a> that is held every five years to review the status of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> The 2010 conference was the first in 10 years to result in an consensus agreement. Tauscher was also the lead official in the State Department working on the bilateral agreements with Poland, Romania, and Turkey for the European Phased Adaptive Approach missile defense system, negotiating timely agreements that allowed the President's deployment timeline to be met.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2008, Tauscher was a strong supporter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a>'s candidacy for Presiden</b>t. She traveled around the country as a surrogate for Clinton's campaign in the primary. In 2013, she was one of the first prominent elected officials to join the Ready for Hillary effort which became one of the largest independent grassroots efforts on behalf of an undeclared Presidential candidate in history.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career_after_politics">Career after politics</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Career after politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Tauscher returned to the private sector, joining the boards of a number of publicly held corporations, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invacare" title="Invacare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Invacare</a> Corporation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Ehealth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ehealth</a>, Inc, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_International" title="Edison International" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edison International</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_Edison" title="Southern California Edison" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern California Edison</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="SeaWorld Entertainment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SeaWorld Entertainment</a>. She also served as an independent member of the Board of Governors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Security_LLC" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Security" title="Los Alamos National Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Alamos National Security</a> LLC; a member of the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Comprehensive_Cancer_Network" title="National Comprehensive Cancer Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Comprehensive Cancer Network</a> and was chairman of the Board of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2013, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Bangladesh_Worker_Safety" title="Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety</a> elected Tauscher as independent chairperson.<sup id="cite_ref-chairperson_2013_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-chairperson_2013-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> The Alliance is a coalition of some of the largest clothing retailers and brands in North America, including Wal-Mart, Target, the Gap, Costco, and VF Brands. The Alliance is working with the government of Bangladesh, factory owners, and international organizations to improve worker safety for Bangladeshi garment workers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher also served as a strategic advisor to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Baker Donelson on matters of defense, transportation, energy, and health care.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher was a member of the ReFormers Caucus of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_One" title="Issue One" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Issue One</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_views">Political views</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: Political views" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A leading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way(centrism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Way (centrism)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">centrist</a> Democrat, Tauscher was the chairwoman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Democrat Coalition</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_caucus" title="Congressional caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">caucus</a> of moderate Democrats in the House. She also served as vice-chairwoman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Leadership Council</a> from 2001 to 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-content.time.com_9-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-content.time.com-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher received an 11% lifetime rating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Conservative Union</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> and a 95% rating for her 2008 voting record from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Democratic_Action" title="Americans for Democratic Action" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Americans for Democratic Action</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While in Congress, she supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">universal health care</a> and, in particular, covering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">uninsured</a> children through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a> (SCHIP).<sup id="cite_ref-tauscher_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-tauscher-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> She also supported scaling back the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States" title="Estate tax in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">estate tax</a>, tightening <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States" title="Bankruptcy in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bankruptcy</a> rules, and expanding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade" title="Free trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">free trade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost.com_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-washingtonpost.com-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Abortion">Abortion</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=5" title="Edit section: Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher was strongly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-choice" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pro-choice</a>. She received a 100% positive rating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARAL_Pro-Choice_America" title="NARAL Pro-Choice America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NARAL</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> She voted against bans on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Late-term abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">late-term</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact_dilation_and_extraction" title="Intact dilation and extraction" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">partial-birth abortions</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She also supported federal funding of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy" title="Stem cell controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">stem cell research</a>, voting in favor of both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_Cell_Research_Enhancement_Act" title="Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stem Cell Research Enhancement Acts</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_rights">Gun rights</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: Gun rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher was in favor of more extensive gun control. She expressed her support for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Second Amendment</a>, but has also said that "we should keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those with history of violence." She called for "common sense gun safety legislation that strikes a balance between Second Amendment protections and protections for the public."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While in Congress, she supported arming commercial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pilots</a>, requiring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_check" title="Background check" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">background checks</a> of legal gun owners, and banning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special" title="Saturday night special" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saturday night specials</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> She received an F rating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Iraq_war">Iraq war</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=7" title="Edit section: Iraq war" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2002, Tauscher voted in favor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraq Resolution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq Resolution</a>, approving the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">use of military force in</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq</a>. However, she later became a critic of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq War</a>, while continuing to vote for funding for the War (see HR 1585<sup id="cite_ref-HR_1585_Iraq_War_Funding_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-HR_1585_Iraq_War_Funding-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>). In December 2005, Tauscher led a group of twenty-two other House Democrats in sending a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> urging him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S.troops_from_Iraq" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">withdraw U.S. troops</a>, expressing the hope that the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iraq" title="Politics of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraqi government</a> takes increased responsibility" for its political and security needs.<sup id="cite_ref-iraq_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-iraq-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> She later voted to redeploy troops out of Iraq within 90 days<sup id="cite_ref-issues_27-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> and even to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_to_impeach_George_W.Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement to impeach George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">impeach President Bush</a> over the war.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="LGBT_issues">LGBT issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=8" title="Edit section: LGBT issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher was an early proponent of same-sex marriage, publicly stating in 2004 in response to President George W. Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, "It is clear to me that this is the civil rights issue of the 21st century, and it is unambiguous in my mind that the government cannot discriminate by gender the rights conferred by the state in marriage."<sup id="cite_ref-marriage_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-marriage-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> In 2006, she voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Marriage_Amendment" title="Federal Marriage Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federal Marriage Amendment</a>, which would have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">constitutionally</a> defined marriage as being between a man and woman.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_27-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 3, 2009, Tauscher introduced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Readiness_Enhancement_Act" title="Military Readiness Enhancement Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Military Readiness Enhancement Act</a> of 2009 to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House of Representatives</a>, which would have repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The bill eventually passed in a slightly different form in 2010 after Tauscher had left the House, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She was opposed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies" title="Boy Scouts of America membership controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">banning gays from the</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America" title="Boy Scouts of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boy Scouts</a>. She had a 100% rating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human Rights Campaign</a>, the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" title="LGBT rights in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gay rights</a> advocacy group in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_27-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit§ion=9" title="Edit section: Personal life and death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher lived in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasanton,California" title="Pleasanton, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pleasanton</a> and later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo,California" title="Alamo, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alamo, California</a>, during her Congressional career.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup> Prior to their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">divorce</a> in 1999, she was married to William Tauscher, former Chairman and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CEO</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerLand" title="ComputerLand" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vanstar Corporation</a>, current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">director</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway,Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Safeway, Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Safeway, Inc.</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup> and founder of the Tauscher Group, which invests and assists in the management of enterprises in home products, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transportation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">transportation</a>, security and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate" title="Real estate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">real estate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_37-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-forbes-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> She had a daughter, Katherine (born 1991).<sup id="cite_ref-women_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-women-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the same day as her taking the office of Under Secretary, she married widower James Cieslak, a retired pilot for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines" title="Delta Air Lines" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Delta Air Lines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wedding2009_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-wedding2009-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> They divorced in 2011.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July 2010, Tauscher was diagnosed with Stage 3 esophageal cancer, one of the fastest growing cancers in the United States and one of the deadliest, with a survival rate of 18%.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup> After a grueling regimen of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery to remove her esophagus, Tauscher was declared cancer-free in December 2010. Following that time, she was active as a board member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and as Chair of the NCCN Foundation, as well as speaking around the country, advocating for more information, more funding and earlier screening for the disease.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tauscher died of pneumonia on April 29, 2019, at the age of 67 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_Medical_Center" title="Stanford University Medical Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stanford University Medical Center</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford,California" title="Stanford, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stanford, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div>