In 1998, Bono served on the House Judiciary Committee that approved articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.

In March 2013, Bono became a senior vice president at the Washington, D.C.-based federal affairs firm Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting.

They moved to Palm Springs, California[3] where Sonny Bono served as mayor from 1988 to 1992 before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.

[6] The congressman died in a skiing accident on January 5, 1998,[7] during his second term in Congress, leaving a vacant seat in the House, which Mary Bono would then pursue.

In 1998, Mary Bono won the Republican nomination for the special election to succeed her late husband in what was then California's 44th congressional district.

[14] The daughter of a veteran, Bono also played a key role in creation of VA clinics in Blythe and Palm Desert, California.

[18] In 2013, Bono was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

[21] In March 2013, Bono became a senior vice president at the Washington, D.C.-based federal affairs firm Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting.

[26] In October 2018, following the Michigan State University sex abuse scandal, Bono was named interim president and chief executive officer of USA Gymnastics.

[28] After attending a lecture by mountaineer-turned-humanitarian Greg Mortenson, Bono worked with him to aid his efforts to build schools for girls in the mountainous regions of Pakistan.

[33] On December 15, 2007, Bono married Congressman Connie Mack IV (R-FL) in Asheville, North Carolina.