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| | Inside Washington: What You Didn't Know About Sen. Jeff Bingaman - US News and World Report |
 | | Bingaman was born in the mining town of Silver City, N.M., where his father was a science professor at Western New Mexico University and his mother taught in the public schools. |
 | | Bingaman met his future wife, Anne Kovacovich, at Stanford, where they were both in law school; they have one son, John. |
 | | She was the center of controversy when it was disclosed that she had accepted $2.5 million from Global Crossing Corp. to lobby on behalf of favorable antitrust legislation, which subsequently passed. |
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