Bart Stupak

Bart Stupak

Bartholomew Thomas "Bart" Stupak (born February 29, 1952 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is a politician with the Democratic Party of the United States . He was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011 and represented Michigan’s Congressional Constituency 1 , which consists of the entire Upper Peninsula and the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Life

Bart Stupak was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from Gladstone High School in Gladstone , Michigan in 1970 . He then attended Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City until 1972 , where he earned an associate degree . In the same year he began working as a police officer in Escanaba and from 1973 to 1984 for the Michigan State Police . During this time he completed a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice at the Saginaw Valley State University , which he in 1977 with the grade magna cum laude graduated, and a law degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing , which he in 1981 with the acquisition of Juris Doctor finished successfully. He then worked as a lawyer.

Stupak lives in Menominee , is married and has one son. His second son Bart Jr. committed suicide in May 2000, which the family attributes in part to taking the acne drug Accutane .

Political career

From 1989 to 1990 Stupak was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives ; then he decided to run for the state Senate , but was defeated in the primary. In 1992 he ran in the election for the US House of Representatives in Congressional District 1 and won the election against the Republican candidate Philip Ruppe . Since then he has been able to defend the seat in every election. Most recently he was a member of the following committees:

United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce

• Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection
• Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
• Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation (Chair)

On April 9, 2010, Stupak announced that he would not run again in the November 2010 elections for the US House of Representatives . He resigned from Congress on January 3, 2011.

Positions

Due to the location of the electoral district, Stupak is particularly committed to the protection of the Great Lakes and rejects pollution from sewage discharge as well as the approval of the production of oil and natural gas in this area.

When it comes to abortion, the Catholic Stupak is considered one of the most prominent pro-life activists. He is a member of the Democrats for Life of America advocacy group and his candidacies were supported by the National Right to Life Committee , the largest pro-life organization in the United States. In the health care reform debate , he supported the House of Representatives' Affordable Health Care for America Act , but made his approval contingent on the adoption of an amendment known as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that would allow abortions to be funded by federal funds with few Exceptions excluded (see Hyde Amendment ). Ultimately, however, in March 2010, Stupak approved the enforced Senate draft without accepting an additional article. President Obama got his vote to sign a decree confirming the US administration's previous policy of not giving federal funding for abortions. In return, Stupak received heavy criticism and anonymous death threats from various pro-life groups and radical anti-abortionists.

Stupak has an apartment in Washington, DC in the so-called C Street Center , a residential building owned by the Christian evangelical organization The Family . However, he denies any involvement in the activities of this organization beyond the rental agreement. According to research by journalist Jeff Sharlet , however, he was a regular guest at The Cedars , another branch of The Family , from which Sharlett concludes that Stupak is far more involved in this network than he admits.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} House.gov: Biography of US Representative Bart Stupak ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2010 
2. ^ The New York Times: Abortion Foe Defies Party on Health Care Bill , accessed March 25, 2010
3. ↑ House.gov: Safety Issues Surrounding Accutane ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2010 
4. ^ The New York Times: Under Fire for Abortion Deal, Stupak to Retire , accessed April 10, 2010
5. ↑ House.gov: Protecting Our Great Lakes ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2010 
6. ^ The Washington Post: Health-care reform and abortion coverage: Questions and answers , accessed March 25, 2010
7. ↑ FAZ.com: After the battle is before the battle , accessed on March 25, 2010
8. ↑ Washingtonindependent.com: 'C Street' Democrat: Don't Ask Me, I Just Live There ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2010 
9. ^ Ed Brayton, The Michigan Messenger: Stupak denies knowledge of connections to mysterious 'C Street' house he lives in. ( Memento of March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed July 23, 2009

Web links

Commons : Bart Stupak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bart Stupak in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Personal web presence of the election campaign