• Speaks Mandarin and French
• 13 Hours: The length of a marathon House session she left (to a standing ovation) the day before her second child was born.
• Learned From Hillary: Hired Clintonista Howard Wolfson for her first congressional run (in 2006).
• Gained nickname “Tracey Flick” from some in Congress.
• 100: Rating with the ACLU (and the NRA)
• Co-sponsored bill to “encourage participation in hunting and fishing.”
• Her mother traditionally shot their thanksgiving turkey.
• 4:10:15: The best of her two times running the New York City Marathon (in 1992).
• Kids’ Names: Theodore Ignatius, (b. 2004), after Teddy Roosevelt. Henry Nelson, (b. 2008), in honor of British admiral Horatio Nelson, who won the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Husband didn’t vote for her (he’s a British citizen).
• How He Proposed: “I gave her a snowball with a ring in it, and she was about to throw it, and I screamed, ‘No!— open it up.’ ” “I did almost throw it at a squirrel,” she said.
• 4 Years: How long she represented Philip Morris as a lawyer.
• $4,700,000 raised on her way to a blowout victory in 2008 over a wealthy GOP challenger.
• Record: Voted with the Democrats 93.8% of the time (still, rated least liberal Dem rep from N.Y. in 2007).
• Her dad, Douglas Rutnik, was close to state GOP bigs, including Senator Al D’Amato and state party chief Bill Powers. He also dated Zenia Mucha, a top aide to George Pataki.
• She was an intern in D’Amato’s office during college at Dartmouth.
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