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Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. - Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr. - John Edwards
John Edwards (1786 - June 26, 1843) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John Edwards (granduncle of John Edwards Leonard) was born in Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was deputy attorney general for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. - John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. - Henry Waxman
Henry Arnold Waxman, born to a Jewish family September 12, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, is an American politician. He has represented (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1975. Waxman, a Democrat, is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. He serves the cities of West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and parts of the city of Los Angeles. - Mark Foley
Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. Once known as a crusader against child abuse and exploitation, Foley resigned from Congress on September 29, … - Christopher Dodd
Christopher John Dodd is a second generation U.S. Senator from Willimantic, Conn. He was born in 1944 to Grace Mary Dodd and Sen. Thomas Dodd . The Dodd father lost his first run for the Senate in 1956 to Prescott Bush , father of President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of the current president. After attending a Jesuit boys school in Maryland, Chris Dodd matriculated to Providence College, where he received a degree in English Literature in 1966. - Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, McKinney is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's fourth congressional district. McKinney was defeated in the 2006 Democratic primary, losing her Congressional seat for the second time. - Joe Barton
Joseph Linus "Joe" Barton (born September 15, 1949) is a Republican politician, representing (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985 - Bart Gordon
Barton Jennings Gordon, (born January 24, 1949) is a politician from the state of Tennessee, representing the state's 6th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a Democrat. The district takes in several rural areas and fast-growing suburbs east of Nashville. With the Democrats' victory in the 2006 midterm elections, Gordon has been named as chairman of the House Science Committee. - Robert Wexler
(Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States Congress, released the following statement regarding the government of Israel's ongoing military efforts in the Gaza strip. Wexler supports the government of Israel's efforts to prevent Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist organizations from launching rockets and mortars into Israel. - Hank Johnson
Henry “Hank” Johnson Jr. is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. The district is based in DeKalb County, a largely suburban county east of Atlanta. It also includes portions of Gwinnett and Rockdale counties. A Democrat, Johnson was elected to the U.S. House in the November 7, 2006 general election. Johnson is, along with Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, also elected to Congress in 2006, … - Rick Boucher
Frederick Carlyle "Rick" Boucher (born August 1, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 9th Congressional District (map). Boucher is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently lives. He earned his BA from Roanoke College and his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He has practiced law on Wall Street in New York and in Virginia. - Bob Filner
Congressman Filner (D-CA) asserted that wait times are not only intolerable - they are counter productive to national security - efficiency is security. In a lively discussion on the San Diego/San Ysidro region challenges posed by significant border delays, Congressman Filner called on the BTA and others to form a broader coalition of united border regions to bring a more powerful voice to the importance of efficient border policies and practices. - Joe Wilson
Addison Graves Wilson, Sr., usually known as Joe Wilson (born July 31, 1947) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district is based in the state capital, Columbia, and stretches to the resort towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. - Bennie Thompson
Bennie G. Thompson (born January 28, 1948) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Mississippi (map) since 1993. The district includes most of Jackson and is the only majority-black district in the state. The district is approximately 275 miles long, 180 miles wide and borders the Mississippi River. The Mississippi Delta comprises the vast majority of the 2nd District. - David Wu
David Wu (born April 8 , 1955 ) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Oregon , representing the state's first congressional district . His district includes a small section of western Multnomah County, Oregon and all of Yamhill , Columbia , Clatsop and Washington counties. He is the first Chinese-American to be elected to the US Congress. Wu was born in Taiwan , and moved to the United States with his family in 1961. - Nick Lampson
Nicholas Valentino Lampson, usually known as Nick Lampson (born February 14, 1945) is an American politician from the state of Texas. Lampson was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 9th District from 1997 to 2005. After redistricting, he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Texas's 2nd District in 2004. After a one-term hiatus from Congress, he returned to Congress from the 22nd District, … - Bob Ney
Robert William "Bob" Ney (born July 5 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his October 13, 2006 guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. - Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election. - Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert "Sam" Johnson (born October 11, 1930) is an American politician. He currently is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Third District of Texas (map). - Steve Chabot
Steven (Steve) Chabot (born January 22, 1953) is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, representing that state's first congressional district, in the Cincinnati area. - Brad Miller
Ralph Bradley "Brad" Miller (born May 19, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina, currently representing the state's Thirteenth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. - Paul Ryan
Paul D. Ryan, Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician and Congressman from Wisconsin. He is a member of the Republican Party, and represents (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. - John Ford
John N. Ford (born May 3, 1942) is a funeral director, insurance agent, and consultant in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate, representing District 29, and the brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Sr. and hence the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. In April 2007 he was convicted on Federal bribery charges. - Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (November 23 1804 - October 8 1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He is to date the only president from New Hampshire and was the first president born in the nineteenth century. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. - Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - John Culberson
John Abney Culberson (born August 24, 1956), American politician, is a Republican congressman from Texas, representing that state's 7th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2001. The district takes in large portions of western Houston and surrounding Harris County. Culberson has been one of President Bush's staunchest allies regarding the war in Iraq. - Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland (born April 2, 1950), a politician from the U.S. state of Georgia, was elected in 2004 to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican representing the state's 3rd Congressional district. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but calls Grantville, Georgia his home. He is married to Joan Westmoreland and has three children and six grandchildren. Prior to his election to the United States Congress, … - Jerry Weller
Gerald C. "Jerry" Weller (b. July 7 1957, Streator, Illinois) is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1995, representing (map). In the November 2006 general election, Congressman Weller defeated Democratic opponent John Pavich. - Vito Fossella
Vito John Fossella, Jr. (born March 9, 1965), is a Republican politician from the state of New York who has represented the state's 13th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. The district includes Staten Island and the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Fossella, A Staten Island native, was born to a family that included several politicians. - Ron Kind
Ronald James Kind (born March 16 1963) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, representing. Kind is a native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was first elected in the 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin (map) in November 1996. He currently serves on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. His other (non-committee) titles are the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, … - Rob Portman
Robert Jones "Rob" Portman (born December 19, 1955) is an American lawyer and a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his current appointment, Portman was the United States Trade Representative, a post carrying the rank of Ambassador. From 1993 to 2005, he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, representing that state's 2nd congressional district (map), … - Joe Sestak
Joseph A. "Joe" Sestak, Jr. (born December 12 1951) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral and is the Congressman for the U.S. House of Representatives in (map). He is the highest-ranking military official to serve in Congress. - Bob Riley
Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American politician in the Republican Party. He is the current Governor of Alabama, first elected in 2002, and re-elected during the 2006 mid-term election. Riley was born in Ashland, Alabama, a small town in Clay County where his family ranched and farmed for six generations. Riley attended the University of Alabama, graduating with a degree in business administration. - Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is a Democratic politician from Tucson, Arizona. She is congresswoman for. Giffords is the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Arizona Senate, where she served from 2003 to 2005. On November 7, 2006 Giffords was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She took office January 4, 2007. - Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Since the 2002 redistricting the district she has represented the 13th District of Michigan comprised of most of Detroit and portions of Downriver. She is the Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 110th Congress (2007-8). She is the mother of Detroit's current mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. - Darlene Hooley
Darlene Hooley (born April 4 1939 in Williston, North Dakota) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon and represents the 5th Congressional District. Hooley resides in West Linn, Oregon. In the 2006 election, Hooley won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Republican Mike Erickson, Green Paul Aranas and Constitution candidate Douglas Patterson. - Joe Knollenberg
Joseph (Joe) Knollenberg (born November 28, 1933) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Knollenberg was born in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1955. After graduation, he served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. He became an insurance agent and moved to Oakland County, Michigan in 1967. - Pete Sessions
A conservative community leader, United States Congressman Pete Sessions has combined hard work, innovative thinking, free-market solutions and common sense based principles and values to build a successful family, business and congressional career. First elected in 1996, Congressman Sessions was re-elected in 1998, and 2000 by the people of Dallas and the Fifth Congressional District to represent them in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC.
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