Rep. John Shadegg (R) Elected 1994, 5th term
Born:	Oct. 22, 1949, Phoenix
Home:	Phoenix
Education:	U. of AZ, B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975
Religion:	Episcopalian
Marital Status:	married (Shirley)
Military Career:	Air Natl. Guard, 1969-75.
Professional Career:	Practicing atty., 1975-94; US Spec. Asst. Atty. Gen., 1983-90; Spec. Cnsl., AZ House Republican Caucus, 1991-92; Cnsl., AZ Wildlife Conservation, 1992.
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In May 1998 Barry Goldwater died at his home in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley. His life had spanned almost the whole history of Arizona. He was born on New Year's Day 1909, when Arizona was still a territory, and could remember when it was the "baby state," with fewer people than every other state but Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada. When he returned from World War II, Paradise Valley was still empty land and Phoenix--founded after the Civil War as a hay market for cavalry horses at Fort McDowell 40 miles away--was not much more than a tiny outpost of American civilization in a sizzling desert. Today Arizona has 5.1 million people, with 3.3 million in metropolitan Phoenix; the city has been transformed from a frontier outpost to a diversified high-tech center, an example of how creativity and ingenuity can build a sophisticated city with relatively minimalist government and low taxes.

Like Los Angeles and San Francisco, Phoenix is dotted with mountains that rise grandly from the plains and are kept as undeveloped parkland. Some, such as Shaw Butte in the shadow of I-17, contain archeological evidence that Indians used them as a base for sophisticated astronomical observations. From Camelback Mountain, 1,800 feet above Phoenix and Paradise Valley, you can with equal awe get a sense of what this land was originally like and an understanding of how impressively Phoenix has grown. East of Camelback, subdivisions were often built with grass and greenery; in the affluent areas north of Camelback and spreading out Scottsdale Road and the Black Canyon Freeway, the natural desert look is more common. In 1999, the master-planned community of Anthem opened 35 miles north of downtown; it is expected to grow to 50,000 within a decade. Grass is discouraged, and often banned by subdivision covenant; planting anything but desert flora is frowned upon. The architecture of the houses tends toward unadorned stucco with picture windows facing away from the sun; the idea is to suggest that there is a horse corral over in the next lot and sometimes, especially in the northern edges of Phoenix, there is.

The 3d Congressional District includes the northern part of Phoenix plus Paradise Valley, bounded on the south by a zigzag line that approximates the Arizona Canal. The 3d also includes, 20 miles north of downtown Phoenix, the communities of New River, Cave Creek and Carefree (so named in 1955 by developers who hoped to lure retirees). Here the stores are more likely to feature horse feed than designer clothes--but that is changing fast, as metro Phoenix moves inexorably north, bringing with it more upscale malls in the adobe vernacular. This is an affluent, and comfortably Republican, district.

The congressman from the 3d District is John Shadegg (pronounced SHAD-egg), elected in 1994, with a fine Arizona Republican pedigree. His father, Stephen Shadegg, managed Barry Goldwater's first campaign for the Senate in 1952, when he upset Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland; in those pre-fax, pre-email days, the older Shadegg helped deliver campaign press releases. The younger Shadegg is a lawyer who served as special assistant to the state attorney general and a special counsel to the Arizona House Republican Caucus. When Jon Kyl ran for the Senate in 1994, Shadegg ran for his House seat and won 43% in the Republican primary, to 30% for Trent Franks (now the 2d District congressman), and 21% for a county supervisor. He won the general election easily, 60%-36%.

In the House, Shadegg has been a consistent conservative vote. As one of the firebrand 1994 Republican freshmen, he has held firm as a rebel against Democratic policies and often against his own party's leadership. He refused to back the balanced budget amendment without a three-fifths supermajority for tax increases, in defiance of Speaker Newt Gingrich and Majority Leader Dick Armey. He was one of 15 freshmen to vote against a keep-the-government-open compromise in January 1996 and he voted against the Clinton-Gingrich budget deal in 1997, saying its claims of budget balance and tax relief were "overblown and exaggerated." On the Budget Committee, he proposed in 1998 a budget with more domestic spending cuts, more defense increases and more tax cuts than Chairman John Kasich's. When he chaired the House's Republican Study Committee for three years, Shadegg and his group agreed to support the annual budget resolution but they insisted--with occasional success--that appropriators strictly comply with budget limits; when he gave up the post in January 2003, he contended that the RSC's influence had grown and its membership had increased to about 70. In November 2001 he was one of nine members to oppose the airline security bill, arguing that it couldn't be carried out. In 2002, a Washingtonian magazine poll of House staffers placed him high on the list of members with the "strongest backbone." But his anti-leadership stands cost him a seat on Ways and Means in 1997; it went to the 5th District's J.D. Hayworth instead.

On the Commerce Committee Shadegg, at the request of Speaker Dennis Hastert, worked to write an alternative HMO bill which would allow some lawsuits against HMOs, but with limits on recovery and a provision requiring losing litigants to pay costs. When House Republicans were pressured to support the more sweeping Norwood-Dingell alternative, Shadegg's version gave them some cover, though it exposed him to attack from both insurance companies and trial lawyers. In 2001, that approach helped to broker Norwood's split from Dingell and his return as a party regular. The Arizona Republic editorialized that Shadegg's handling of the issue "has provided real leadership toward middle-ground solutions."

Shadegg has won re-election each time with at least 64% of the vote against weak opposition. His interest in running for the Senate if John McCain retires in 2004 may have caused tension with Hayworth, a potential rival. During Hayworth's unsuccessful bid in 2002 for Republican Conference chairman, Hayworth sent Shadegg a campaign check for $1,000. The frugal Shadegg returned it, saying it could be better used in a more competitive contest--but his staff did not deny that he had kept contributions from other House Republicans.

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306 CHOB 20515, 202-225-3361; Fax: 202-225-3462; Web site: www.house.gov/shadegg

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Phoenix, 602-263-5300.

Committees

• Energy & Commerce (16th of 31 R): Commerce, Trade & Consumer Protection (Vice Chmn.); Energy & Air Quality; Health.
• Financial Services (23d of 37 R): Capital Markets, Insurance & Government Sponsored Enterprises; Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade & Technology; Oversight & Investigations.
• Select Committee on Homeland Security (21st of 27 R): Emergency Preparedness & Response (Chmn.); Infrastructure & Border Security; Intelligence & Counterterrorism.

Group Ratings (More Info)
	ADA	ACLU	AFS	LCV	CON	ITIC	NTU	COC	ACU	NTLC	CHC
2002	0	13	0	0	99	88	67	90	100	100	100
2001	5	--	0	0	--	--	80	96	96	--	--

National Journal Ratings (More Info)
	2001 LIB	--	2001 CONS		2002 LIB	--	2002 CONS
Economic	0%	--	94%		16%	--	81%
Social	34%	--	66%		0%	--	75%
Foreign	4%	--	87%		0%	--	85%
For National Journal's complete 2002 Vote Ratings, as well as previous ratings dating back to 1995, please click here.

Key Votes Of The 107th Congress (More Info)
1. Approve Bush Tax Cuts Y 2. Limit Patients' Bill of Rights Y 3. Campaign Finance Reform N 4. Ban ANWR Development N 5. Faith-Based Charities Y 6. Bar Gays in the Boy Scouts Y		7. Ban Partial-Birth Abortion Y  8. Arm Commercial Pilots Y  9. Trade Promotion Authority Y 10. Bar Funds for Intl. Court Y 11. Authorize Force in Iraq Y 12. Deny Home. Sec. Dept. Union Y

Election Results (More Info)
	Candidate	Total Votes	Percent	Expenditures
2002 general	John Shadegg (R)	104,847	67%	$814,461
	Charles Hill (D)	47,173	30%	$11,694
	Other	3,731	2%
2002 primary	John Shadegg (R)	unopposed
2000 general	John Shadegg (R)	140,396	64%	$572,248
	Ben Jankowski (D)	71,803	33%	$1,250
	Other	7,298	3%
Prior winning percentages: 1998 (65%); 1996 (67%); 1994 (60%)

2000 presidential
	Bush (R)	114,259	54%
	Gore (D)	89,308	43%
	Other	6,140	3%
For 1992 and 1996 presidential results in the Third District, please see the Almanac 2000 online. Please note that these older returns reflect district lines as they existed prior to 2002 redistricting.

• Cook Partisan Voting Index: R + 6
• District Size: 599 square miles
• Population in 2000: 641,329; 96.5% urban; 3.5% rural
• Median Household Income: $48,108; 8.7% are below the poverty line
• Occupation: 17.7% blue collar; 68.2% white collar; 14.1% gray collar; 13.4% military veterans
• Race/Ethnic Origin: 78.5% White, 2.3% Black, 2.1% Asian, 1.2% Amer. Indian, 0.1% Hawaiian, 1.6% Two+ races, 0.1% Other, 14.1% Hispanic origin
• Ancestry: 14.5% German, 10.0% Irish, 8.6% English
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