Representing Seattle’s wealthy Microsoft suburbs, Rep. Dunn has led House fights to eliminate capital gains and inheritance taxes. Shallow appearances might suggest that Dunn was hustling for Bill Gates’ kid, but she said her real reason in battling the inheritance tax was because “it hurts communities with farms that have to be turned over to corporations and then developed.” This year Dunn also championed an amendment to bar the Interior Department from spending money on any new national monuments. This failed maneuver was an attempt to curb President Clinton, who recently protected 3.9 million acres out West by designating them as monuments. She also opposed federal rules to prevent workplace injuries.