Elected 1992, seat up 2004 Born: Feb. 14, 1947, Nashua Home: Rye Education: Columbia U., A.B. 1969, Boston U., J.D. 1972, LL.M. 1975 Religion: Protestant Marital Status: married (Kathleen)

Career:

• Political: NH Exec. Cncl., 1978-80; U.S. House of Reps., 1980-88; NH Gov., 1988-92.
• Professional: Practicing atty., 1976-80.

DC Office: 393 RSOB 20510, 202-224-3324; Fax: 202-224-4952; Web site: www.senate.gov/~gregg

State Offices: Berlin, 603-752-2604; Concord,603-225-7115; Manchester,603-622-7979; Portsmouth,603-431-2171.

Committees:

• Appropriations: Commerce, Justice, State & Judiciary (RMM); Defense; Foreign Operations; Interior; Labor, HHS & Education.
• Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (RMM): Aging; Public Health.

Judd Gregg, New Hampshire's junior senator, grew up in Nashua and in politics. His father, Hugh Gregg, was elected governor in 1952 and was a power in presidential primary politics up through 1988, when he backed George Bush. Judd Gregg was a student at Columbia during the student riots of 1968, but stayed true to New Hampshire Republicanism; after law school, he returned to Nashua and practiced law. In 1978 he was elected to the Executive Council, which dates to the colonial era and approves state appointments and expenditures. In 1980 he was elected to the House, where he was an eager participant in the Reagan revolution. In 1988, he ran for governor and won handily; he was easily re-elected in 1990.

In 1992, Gregg ran for the Senate when Warren Rudman retired, and in his taciturn way seemed sure he would win. But the New Hampshire economy had turned sour, and the race turned close. In the September primary he beat a construction company owner by only 50%-38%. In the general, he faced retired businessman John Rauh, who backed the line-item veto and balanced budget amendment and attacked Gregg for opposing abortion. Gregg was also attacked for having received a draft deferment in 1969 for bad knees, sleepwalking and severe acne. He won by an unimpressive 48%-45% margin.

In the Senate Gregg has a moderate to conservative voting record. He has been chief deputy majority whip since June 1996 and became an Appropriations subcommittee chairman in 1999, but has made his greatest impression by taking the lead on some controversial issues. He served on the 1994 Entitlements Commission and in 1995 headed the Senate Republicans' working group on entitlement reform; he drafted a Medicare reform to give seniors more choices, including the current system. In 1998 he served on the CSIS National Commission on Retirement Policy and co-sponsored its Social Security reform, which would put 2% of payroll taxes into mandatory investment accounts, lift minimum benefits levels, raise the retirement age and means-test affluent workers. In 2001 he and Democrat John Breaux proposed a 12-member Social Security commission, with Democratic members picked by Republicans and Republican members by Democrats.

On environmental issues Gregg has backed reform of the 1872 Mining Act and higher grazing fees. In 1998 he and Vermont's Patrick Leahy sponsored the Northern Forest Stewardship Act, to preserve mostly privately owned forests from Maine west to Upstate New York. He opposed the 1999 Clinton order closing off 30% of the White Mountain National Forest, and has argued that local communities should have more of a say in forest use. He has procured federal money to buy land to preserve Lake Tarleton, expand the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, purchase a conservation easement in the Ossipee Mountains and to preserve Great Bay in Portsmouth. He has also used his seat on Appropriations to fund other New Hampshire projects--$4 million for the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm's College, $15 million in counterrorism research at Dartmouth, $10.5 million for New Hampshire law enforcement. He used an appropriations rider to seek patent protection on a drug owned by his alma mater, Columbia, and in a hand-written amendment got $1.4 million for the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce. With Herb Kohl, he sponsored a bill to establish that out-of-state businesses are not responsible for state sales tax collection on Internet transactions, and in 2001 he sponsored a ban on Internet sale of Social Security numbers.

On the HELP Committee Gregg has been a supporter of greater federal funding of special education. He has sponsored bills to protect teachers from civil suits over school discipline. In early 2001 he was the point man for the Bush administration on education reform, working with Republicans across the spectrum and with moderate Democrats to get a bill to the floor. Gregg has taken a hand in foreign policy as well, using his power as an appropriator to hold up or deliver funds for UN peacekeeping missions. In May 2000, for example, he allowed funds to be spent on operations in Kosovo; in June 2000, when he decided that the Clinton administration had abandoned the Lome accord, he released funds for Sierra Leone; other countries affected were East Timor and Congo.

Gregg has maintained a network of supporters in New Hampshire, but the Gregg organization that was so effective for George Bush in 1988 was unable to deliver a victory for George W. Bush in 2000. Gregg played Al Gore in candidate Bush's debate preparation; whether he anticipated Gore's loud sighs in the first debate is not clear. Gregg's standing in New Hampshire seems strong. In 1998 potential serious challengers--Dick Swett, John Rauh and his wife Mary--decided not to run, and Gregg was opposed by a low-spending Democrat who called him a ''draft dodger'' and a ''wimp'' and who said at one rally that he would like to get Gregg between a dog and a fire hydrant. Gregg won 68%-28%.

Group Ratings
	ADA	ACLU	AFS	LCV	CON	ITIC	NTU	COC	ACU	NTLC	CHC
2000	0	40	0	14	93	89	76	86	100	97	91
1999	0	--	0	44	71	--	81	76	91	--	--

National Journal Ratings
	1999 LIB	--	1999 CONS		2000 LIB	--	2000 CONS
Economic	30%	--	68%		37%	--	62%
Social	31%	--	68%		10%	--	81%
Foreign	6%	--	90%		5%	--	86%

Key Votes of the 106th Congress
1. Educ. Savings Accts. Y 2. Prescrip. Drug Benefit N 3. Delay Ergonomic Standards Y 4. Phase Out Estate Tax Y 5. Review Movie Violence Y 6. Gun Show Bckgrnd. Checks N		7. Ban Part.-Birth Abortion	*
8. Broaden Hate Crimes List	N
9. NATO War in Serbia	N
10. Table Cuba Travel Ban	Y
11. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty	N
12. Perm. Trade with China	Y

Election Results
1998 general	Judd Gregg (R)	213,477	(68%)
	George Condodemetraky (D)	88,883	(28%)
	Other	12,596	(4%)
1998 primary	Judd Gregg (R)	63,729	(86%)
	Phil Weber (R)	10,784	(14%)
1992 general	Judd Gregg (R)	249,591	(48%)
	John Rauh (D)	234,982	(45%)
	Katherine Alexander (Lib)	18,214	(4%)
	Other	15,629	(3%)

Campaign Finance
1998	Receipts	Receipts from PACs	Expenditures
Judd Gregg (R)	$1,183,131	$685,620	$904,448
George Condodemetraky (D)	$35,827	$7,350	$28,547