 Waldholtz ran on "The Contract With America," originated by Newt Gingrich in Washington D. C. and won the three-way race with 46 percent of the vote to Shepherd's 36 percent and Cook's 18 percent.Immediately upon leaving Congress Karen Shepherd was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.In 1995 she served as part of an international delegation to monitor the first elections held on the West Bank and in Gaza.