Congressional Elections - Who's Good for IT Folks?

rlp asks: "Most of the articles appearing in Slashdot's new political section pertain to the U.S. Presidential election. However, most of the political issues facing American IT people are issues that are dealt with (or more often caused by) Congress. Therefore, my question is: who are the heroes and villains (for U.S. IT people) in Congress that are running for office this year? How does your local Congresscritter (or the person running against them) feel about copyrights, privacy, data security, H1-B, outsourcing, software patents, Open Source, tech education, R&D funding, anti-trust, etc?"

Comments

Three things

[Otter]

1) Like a lot of people, I live in a heavily gerrymandered district. My Congressional election is essentially over, with the Democratic incumbent (who didn't bother campaigning in the primary) running against some no-name Republican and whatever Randroid has decided to take the Libertarian plunge this year. What I'd really like to see is some Iowa-style restrictions on districting that make House races meaningful.

2) While there are heroes and villains in government, routinely talking about elections in those terms is part of why the US political process is so psycho nowadays.

3) Saying "Congresscritter" wasn't even funny when it was new, and now it's just completely stupid.