A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly

christo writes "In what appears to be a first, the US House of Representatives now has a Congressman with coding skills. Democratic Representative Bill Foster won a special election this past Saturday in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. Foster is a physicist who worked at Fermilab for 22 years designing data analysis software for the lab's high energy particle collision detector. In an interview with CNET today, Foster's campaign manager confirmed that the Congressman can write assembly, Fortran and Visual Basic. Will having a tech-savvy congressman change the game at all? Can we expect more rational tech-policy? Already on his first day, Foster provided a tie-breaking vote to pass a major ethics reform bill."

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Re:thats great and all..

[_KiTA_]

But I'd rather see a Congressman who can write sensible legislature. He could write bills in Assembly, and they'd STILL make more sense.

Get used to voting Dem.

[rsborg]

He was the first Democrat I've ever voted for, and I still feel a bit dirty about it.

The Republican party you knew is gone now... Folks like Abrahmoff, Delay, and Bush have tied the party train to the Corrupt, Corporatist, & Fundamentalist wings of your party.

McCain is going to lose in November because he realizes that he has to pander to all these groups, and leave Americans behind in the process.