Editing Gary Condit (section)

=== U.S. House of Representatives ===
Condit was elected to [[United States Congress|Congress]] in 1989 in a [[Elections in California|special election]] after the resignation of House Democratic Whip [[Tony Coelho]]. He was elected to a full term in 1990, and reelected five more times without serious difficulty (Condit had no Republican challenger during the general elections of 1992 and 1998). His most important committee assignment was as a senior member on the [[House Intelligence Committee]] in the months and years prior to the [[September 11 attacks]]. Like most Democrats from the [[Central Valley, California|Central Valley]], Condit was somewhat more conservative than other Democrats from California. Being a [[Blue Dog Coalition|Blue Dog]] Democrat, Condit voted against [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] more frequently than other members of his party in the chamber.<ref name="Salon0714">[http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/14/sacramento/index.html "Stunned in Sacramento"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060318222326/http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/07/14/sacramento/index.html |date=2006-03-18 }} by Anthony York, July 14, 2001. ''Salon'' Magazine (online). Accessed December 19, 2006.</ref> Condit took several populist progressive positions such as opposing [[NAFTA]] despite intense lobbying from his own district's wine industry and President Clinton himself, voted against the landmark repeal of [[Glass-Steagall Act|Glass-Steagall]] protections,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://clerk.house.gov/evs/1999/roll276.xml|title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 276|date=July 1, 1999}}</ref> and against the [[Iraq War]] and [[Kosovo War|intervention in Kosovo]].<ref>{{cite news |title=2 House Votes Point to Lack of Support for Balkan Action |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-apr-29-mn-32235-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=April 29, 1999}}</ref> In the aftermath of Kosovo, Condit was a persistent force in compelling the prosecution of [[Slobodan Miloševic]].<ref name="garycondit.org">{{Cite web|url=https://garycondit.org/#about-gary|title=Congressman Gary Condit - Official Homepage|website=garycondit.org}}</ref>{{better source needed |date=August 2020 |reason=should be able to source this from a site unaffiliated with the article subject}}

In 1998, during the [[Monica Lewinsky]] scandal, Condit publicly demanded that Clinton "come clean" on his relationship with the young woman; a video of this demand was aired almost daily during Condit's own scandal involving a relationship with [[Bureau of Prisons]] intern [[Chandra Levy]].<ref name="JJ">[https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/4600/ "Chandra Levy's Jewish Angle"] by James D. Besser, July 20, 2001. ''Jewish Journal.'' Accessed December 18, 2006.</ref> Following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], interest in the Levy case declined.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch10_1.html "Who Killed Chandra Levy?"] Washington Post. July 23, 2008. Accessed Aug. 2008.</ref> Condit kept his seat on the Intelligence Committee, retained his security clearance, and was one of a small number of members of Congress who were cleared to see the most sensitive information on the 9/11 attacks. On December 7, 2001, Condit announced he would run for re-election. He lost the Democratic primary election in March 2002 to his former aide, then-Assemblyman [[Dennis Cardoza]], and left Congress at the end of his term in January 2003.<ref name="NYT0306">{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/us/condit-loses-house-race-to-former-aide.html | title=Condit Loses House Race to Former Aide| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 6, 2002| last1=Nieves| first1=Evelyn}}</ref> Condit's most notable vote in his last months in office was the resolution to expel Congressman [[James Traficant]] after his conviction on corruption charges. In the 420–1 vote on July 24, 2002, Condit was the sole "nay".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/weekinreview/roll-call-standouts-or-bumps-on-the-congressional-log.html | work=The New York Times | first=John D. | last=Thomas | title=Roll Call Standouts, or Bumps on the Congressional Log | date=August 11, 2002}}</ref>