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 Elected in 1992, Anna G. Eshoo is the first Democrat to represent the 14th Congressional District, the heart of Silicon Valley, in more than 50 years. The 14th is home to Stanford University, Nasa Ames, Google, HP, Seagate and many of our nation’s great public servants including former Defense Secretary William Perry. The 14th Congressional District includes San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties and 32 cities.
Anna has served on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee since 1995 and is a member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and the Subcommittee on Health. She was appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in January 2003, and in the 110th Congress, she chairs the Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management. Anna co-chairs the Congressional Medical Technology Caucus and is a member of the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus and the Diabetes Caucus. In addition, she co-chairs the Congressional E-911 Caucus and the House Medical Technology Caucus, and serves as Vice Chair of the 21st Century Health Care Caucus. Anna hails from the heart of Silicon Valley and her belief in American competitiveness runs deep. She led the fight to create uniform standards limiting frivolous lawsuits, saving investors and the high-tech industry billions of dollars. Her bill authorizing electronic signatures brought commerce into the digital age and was the model for digital signatures by the European Union.
 A tireless crusader on behalf of innovators and cutting edge enterprises, Anna has long argued against mandatory expensing of broad-based employee stock options. She has sponsored numerous bills to prevent the implementation of accounting rules which would require stock options granted to employees to be deducted from company revenues, a practice which has led to significant reductions in these valuable tools of employee ownership.
In November 2005, Anna led the House Democratic Caucus in introducing The Innovation Agenda – A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1. Anna developed this comprehensive policy in conjunction with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and others after extensive consultation with Silicon Valley and tech leaders around the country, venture capitalists, and scholars. The Agenda represents a commitment to: Greatly increase our investments in R&D by doubling funding for the National Science Foundation and other research agencies and by modernizing and making permanent the R&D tax credit;Improve education in science and math and make college more accessible;Provide universal broadband access for all Americans in five years;Achieve energy independence in ten years;Promote opportunities for small business and innovative startups, ensuring access to venture capital, improving the patent system, and reducing health care costs. The American Electronics Association, The Tech Net Founders Circle and the Semiconductor Industry have all honored Anna for her legislative leadership.
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