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Currently: Gingrich is savoring victory after winning the South Carolina GOP primary with 40.4% of the vote. Romney was somewhat far behind in second with 27.8% of the vote. Santorum and Paul followed way behind Romney with 17% and 13% respectively. Read more at Google Elections, MSNBC or The Hill.
2012 South Carolina Primary Results Chart
David Wu
Wu submitted his official resignation on August 3, 2011 which will prompt a special election to fill the vacancy in advance of the 2012 election.[4] Wu served as the U.S. representative for Oregon’s 1st congressional district from 1999 to 2011. This after Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) issued statements Sunday night calling for the House ethics committee to look into the conduct of Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) [Read more...]
Congressman Anthony Weiner
Currently: Congressman Anthony Weiner resigns & admitts to sending lewd photos to women on twitter and facebook. On June 6, 2011, he held the first press conference to come clean. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7368603n
Bio: Anthony David Weiner ( born September 4, 1964) was the U.S. Representative for New York’s 9th congressional district, which includes parts of southern Brooklyn and south and central Queens. Weiner is a Democrat, and has held the office since 1999.
Lee, Christopher J. (R-NY-26th) Rep.
Currently: On February 9, 2011, Lee was found to have been responding to personal ads on Craigslist posing as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist using his real name, sending shirtless photos to strangers.[21] Lee resigned from office the same day, issuing a statement saying, simply, “I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately.”[2] Read more
Bio: Chris Lee was raised in Tonawanda, New York. Growing up, he saw first hand how the Western New York values of hard work, honesty and accountability turned his family’s business from a small machine shop into a successful, international business with over 20 manufacturing companies spread throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The flagship company, Enidine Incorporated, was located in Orchard Park, New York. [Read more...]
Currently: Announced his retirement, “I have served in the House longer than anyone in Wisconsin history. God and my constituents have been incredibly good to me…” read the full statement
Bio: As a junior Member of the House, he threw his support behind efforts to open committee hearings to the public (when Dave first went to Congress, many of those public hearings were held behind closed doors). In addition, Dave sponsored and pushed through rules changes which required powerful Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs to be voted on by the full Caucus rather than simply becoming Chairman, in order to make certain that they were not arbitrary or out of touch. [Read more...]
Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (born July 14, 1967) is currently representing Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district since 1995. The district includes all of Bristol County and Newport County, and parts of Providence County. On February 11, 2010, Kennedy announced he would not seek re-election in 2010.
Currently: Massa is doing damage control in light of allegations of sexual misconduct with at least one member of his staff… read more
Bio: Congressman Eric Massa, a Naval Academy graduate (class of ’81), is a 24-year retired Navy Commander. While in the Navy, he served during several global conflicts including Beirut and Operation Desert Storm. His capstone military assignment was serving as the Special Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, General Wesley Clark, during the Bosnian conflict. [Read more...]
Currently: Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith announced Tuesday that he’s switching parties – saying he can no longer align himself “with a party that continues to pursue legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy and drives us further and further into debt.” Read the rest of the story from Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896.html
Bio: Congressman Griffith is a retired physician and small business owner. He developed several local businesses and has been active in charitable and community activities for more than thirty years. He was elected to the Alabama State Senate in 2006 and has worked to improve our healthcare system, lower taxes and expand early childhood education programs. As a physician, Griffith was the first radiation oncologist in North Alabama and a pioneer in the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. [Read more...]
Currently: U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie on December 11, 2009 announced that he will resign as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 1st District of Hawaii. Read more from: http://www.house.gov/abercrombie/
Bio: Abercrombie first participated in a political campaign in 1970, seeking the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate. Unsuccessful, Abercrombie ran for the Hawaii State House of Representatives where he served from 1975 to 1979. He moved to the Hawaii State Senate, where he served from 1980 to 1986. After Representative Cecil Heftel resigned from the United States Congress in July 1986 to run for Governor of Hawaii, Abercrombie was elected to the House in a September 1986 special election to complete Heftel’s unexpired term. However, on the same day Abercrombie lost the Democratic primary for a full two-year term to Mufi Hannemann, who went on to lose to Republican Pat Saiki in the general election.[3] [Read more...]
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) — Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana was convicted Wednesday on 11 of the 16 corruption charges against him in a case that included the discovery of $90,000 in his freezer. Read the rest of the story from CNN
A fiscal conservative, Representative Driehaus was the sponsor of legislation that would force a review of the billions of dollars that Ohio foregoes in “tax expenditures.” He served on the Finance and Appropriations, Insurance, Public Utilities and State Government and Elections committees in the State House. In addition, Steve served on the Governor’s Foreclosure Prevention Task Force and the Clean Ohio Council. Representative Driehaus was named legislative “Rookie of the Year” by the Cincinnati Enquirer during his first term, and was named “Legislator of the Year” by both the Ohio Association of Elections Officials and the ARC of Ohio in 2007. [Read more...]
Congressman Dan Maffei was sworn into office on January 6th, 2009 and is serving his first term as U.S. Representative to New York’s 25th Congressional District, which includes all of Onondaga and Wayne counties and parts of Cayuga and Monroe counties. [Read more...]
Suzanne’s experiences over the course of more than 30 years as a New Smyrna Beach resident have given her a great understanding of the issues important to Central Floridians. She raised her family here, instilling the core values of integrity, accountability, and responsibility in her four children, Paul, Michael, David, and Kristen. In building a successful small business, Suzanne learned to focus on common-sense solutions to address the problems we all face. And her work as a community leader, including serving as Chair of the Board for the United Way of Volusia County, has given her insight into the many difficulties facing Central Florida’s families. Read more… [Read more...]
Paul E. Kanjorski (born April 2, 1937, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania) is an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, currently representing Pennsylvania’s 11th congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. His district includes the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton as well as most of the Poconos. Read the rest of his bio from wikipedia…
Congressional Votes Record via WashingtonPost.com
Image via WikipediaVito 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. Fossella initially took office in 1997, after winning a special election held to replace the resigning Susan Molinari. He is currently in his sixth term, having won re-election in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and again in 2006. Read the rest of his bio from Wikipedia
OnTheIssues.org: Vito Fossella on the Issues [Read more...]
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