 In the general election she ran against Enid Greene who had been an aide to Utah Governor Norman Bangerter and was a fiscal and social conservative who opposed all of her positions.In a presidential election year when Bill Clinton received only 25 percent of the votes in Utah, Shepherd still managed to win her race by a narrow 50 percent to 47 percent margin becoming the second woman in Utah's history to be elected to Congress.Once sworn into Congress in January 1993, Shepherd was placed on the Natural Resources and the Public Works and Transportation Committees.