She is a Republican who served as a top advisor to U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney from 2001-2003. Resigned to open a Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm with her husband, former Bill Clinton advisor James Carville. Carville and she have two daughters, Matalin Mary Matty Carville and Emerson Normand Emma Carville. In 2008, they moved their family to New Orleans.