A Representative from Pennsylvania. Born in Queens, Queens County, N. Y. , October 3, 1948. Graduated from the Calhoun School, New York, N. Y. , 1966. B. A. , Simmons College, Boston, Mass. , 1970. M. S. W. , Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. , 1972. Health care executive. Member of the Pennsylvania state senate, 1991-2004. Unsuccessful candidate to nomination for the United States Senate in 2000. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2005-January 3, 2015). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Fourteenth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014.