Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse (2015)

Benjamin Eric "Ben" Sasse (born February 22, 1972 in Plainview , Pierce County , Nebraska ) is an American politician . He has represented the state of Nebraska in the US Senate since 2015 .

Career

Benjamin Sasse attended Fremont Senior High School in Nebraska and then studied at Harvard University until 1994 . In the meantime he was enrolled for a short time at Oxford University in England . He later graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis , Maryland (1998) and Yale University (2004). Professionally, he worked as a business consultant. Between January and July 2005, he was Chief of Staff to Congressman Jeff Fortenberry . In the summer of 2005 he was also an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security. Eventually he became a professor at the University of Texas at Austin . In 2007 he also worked for the Federal Ministry of Health. From 2009 to the end of 2014, he was President of Midland University .

Benjamin Sasse became a member of the Republican Party . In 2014 he was elected as his party's candidate for the US Senate, where he succeeded Mike Johanns on January 3, 2015 , who was no longer a candidate. After he had prevailed in his party's primaries , he beat the Democrat David Domina with 64.8 percent of the vote on election night . Sasse is a member of the Agriculture Committee, the Banking and Urban Affairs Committee, the Homeland Security Committee, the Joint Economic Committee (a joint committee with the House of Representatives) and a special committee that deals with aging issues. He also sits on a total of nine sub-committees.

On February 29, 2016, Sasse stated that he was "frustrated and depressed" by Donald Trump's successes in the primary elections for the Republican presidential candidacy and that he would not support him if he was nominated. In this case, he will look for another option ("... I will look for some third candidate - a conservative option, a constitutionalist"). Sasse accused Trump of further dividing America and “not building” the nation, but on the contrary further “tearing it down”.

Web links

Commons : Benjamin E. Sasse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ben Sasse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Sit in the Project Vote Smart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US election 2016: Republican Ben Sasse 'won't endorse Trump'. BBC News, February 29, 2016, accessed February 29, 2016 .