VAN TRAN Age: 40 Lives in: Garden...

VAN TRAN

Age: 40

Lives in: Garden Grove

Bills introduced this session: 19

Bills pronounced dead: One, a resolution that would have urged

Congress to permanently ax the estate tax -- it was spiked in April

by a committee.

Questionable success: He got unanimous committee approval of a

bill making Anaheim the southernmost stop on a high-speed rail line

beginning in San Francisco, but whether the $9.95-billion project

will be built ...

How he’s different from his colleagues: While some legislators

keep their home and family in their district and rent an apartment in

Sacramento, Tran does the opposite. His main household is in the

capital.