While still in college, I started my first Internet company - American Information Systems - a dial-up Internet provider in the Internet's formative years.

My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.

Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.

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