Frank LoBiondo

Frank LoBiondo (2011)

Frank A. LoBiondo (born May 12, 1946 in Bridgeton , New Jersey ) is an American politician . From 1995 to 2019 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank LoBiondo attended Georgetown Preparatory School in Rockville ( Maryland ) until 1964 . He then studied until 1968 at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia . LoBiondo worked for the family-owned trucking company for 26 years. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1985 and 1988 he served on the county council in Cumberland County ; from 1988 to 1994 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly .

In the 1994 election , LoBiondo was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, in New Jersey's second congressional constituency, where he succeeded Democrat William J. Hughes on January 3, 1995 . After eleven elections, most recently in 2016 , he exercised his mandate in Congress until 2019. He was a member of the Armed Services Committee , the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure and the Intelligence Committee and in five sub-committees.

At the beginning of November 2017, LoBiondo announced that it would not run again in the 2018 election. The reasons he gave was that he had lost his chairmanship in the subcommittee on aviation and his membership in the intelligence committee due to the limitation in office and that the growing partisanship in Congress made solutions increasingly difficult; In both parties there are small but noisy groups who have relied solely on obstruction. His mandate ended on January 3, 2019. The Democrat Jeff Van Drew was elected as his successor .

Frank LoBiondo is considered a comparatively moderate Republican, especially when it comes to environmental issues. A member of the Republican Main Street Partnership , he is the New Jersey Republican who has voted the most with the Democrats in the House of Representatives.

Web links

Commons : Frank LoBiondo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence at the congress
• Frank LoBiondo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Jonathan D. Salant: New Jersey Republican lawmaker Frank LoBiondo retiring. In: NJ.com , November 7, 2017 (English).