Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D) Elected 2002, 2d term
Born:	May 31, 1933, Graceville, MN
Home:	Tamuning
Education:	St. Mary's Col. 1952, St. Katherine's Col., A.A. 1953
Religion:	Catholic
Marital Status:	widowed
Elected  Office:	GU Senate, 1981-82, 1986-94; GU Lt. Gov., 1994-2002.
DC Office	427 CHOB20515, ; Fax: 202-226-0341; Web site: www.house.gov/bordallo
State Offices	Hagatna, 671-477-4272.
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Madeleine Bordallo, a Democrat, was elected delegate from Guam in 2002. She grew up in Minnesota and, from age 14, on Guam. She graduated from St. Katherine's College in St. Paul with a degree in vocal music and worked as a program director and program host on Guam radio stations. In 1953 she married Ricardo Bordallo, from a prominent Guam family, who owned an auto dealership and had many business interests and was well connected in island politics. Madeleine Bordallo became Guam's Democratic National Committeewoman in 1964 and has held that position ever since (she is the most senior member of the Democratic National Committee). Ricardo Bordallo was elected governor in 1974, defeated for reelection in 1978, then elected governor again in 1982. With her husband's encouragement, Madeleine Bordallo ran for the Guam Legislature and was elected in 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992. In 1990 Ricardo Bordallo wrapped himself in the Guam flag, chained himself to the statue of Chief Quipuha and shot himself to avoid a prison term for bribery. Madeleine Bordallo was a candidate for governor that year, but lost 57%-43% to incumbent Joseph Ada. In 1994 she was elected lieutenant governor and was reelected in 1998.

In 2002, when Delegate Robert Underwood decided to run for governor, Bordallo ran for delegate. In the primary she faced Judith Won Pat, daughter of Guam's first delegate, Antonio Borja Won Pat, who served from 1974 to 1986. In this contest between longtime friends, Bordallo won 59%-41%. In the general she faced Joseph Ada, who beat her in 1990. This time she won by an impressive 65%-35% margin.

Bordallo got a seat on the Armed Services Committee and proceeded to lobby her colleagues there for more military deployments in Guam. "All I have to say is location, location, location." In 2003 she got an amendment passed defining U.S. territories and overseas possessions as part of the geographic United States; she had been miffed when a Chamorro State Department employee was denied reimbursement for his son's flight to attend the University of Guam on the grounds that it was not a U.S. school. She also got a bill signed in 2003 giving Guam and other insular areas the same access to guaranteed loans as the 50 states; this seemed likely to bring in $13.5 million, a significant chunk of money for GovGuam (the name for Guam's government). She sought $157 million of debt relief for Guam but her request was denied by the Bush administration. Working closely with Senator Daniel Inouye, who she said was her mentor in Congress, she successfully got $30 million annual compact aid for 20 years, to be divided among Guam, Hawaii, the CNMI and American Samoa; this is to compensate Guam for the costs imposed by immigrants from Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, allowed in the United States by a 1986 compact which gave the U.S. military access to their territories. But she sought still more. "I still believe Guam should be compensated for past unreimbursed compact impact expenses."

The 2004 defense reauthorization included $90 million in military construction for Guam. It also included $250,000 for Bordallo's invasive species pilot project; Guam has been plagued by the voracious and repulsive brown tree snake, which has no natural enemies there.

Bordallo was unopposed for reelection in 2004.

Committees

• Armed Services (23d of 28 D): Projection Forces; Readiness.
• Resources (18th of 22 D): Fisheries & Oceans; National Parks.
• Small Business (9th of 15 D): Regulatory Reform & Oversight (RMM).