Jim scythe burner

Jim scythe burner

Frank James "Jim" Sensenbrenner, Jr. (* 14. June 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He has represented the northwestern suburbs of Milwaukee for the state of Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives since 1979 . He will not stand for re-election in 2020.

Family, education and work

After studying political science at Stanford University (Bachelor 1965), he earned the Juris Doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 , whereupon he began to practice as a lawyer .

Jim Sensenbrenner inherited shares in the Kimberly-Clark company . According to his own statements, he has a net worth of $ 11.6 million. Sensenbrenner spends about ten dollars a week on lottery games. He has already made a large profit three times, in 1997 even in the amount of 250,000 dollars.

He is married to Cheryl Warren Sensenbrenner. They have two children and live in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

Political career

From 1969 to 1975 Sensenbrenner was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly ; after that he sat from 1975 to 1979 in the State Senate . Eventually he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in the 1978 election. Until 2003 he represented Wisconsin's ninth congressional electoral district there. After its dissolution and the redesign of the constituencies as a result of the United States Census 2000 , he has represented Wisconsin's fifth congressional electoral district since 2003, which largely corresponds to its previous constituency and includes the western and northern suburbs of Milwaukee .

From 1997 to 2001 Sensenbrenner was chairman of the science committee , from 2001 to 2007 of the judiciary committee . Sensenbrenner is still a member of both committees. He is also a member of several Congressional Caucuses .

At the beginning of September 2019, Sensenbrenner announced that it would not run again in the 2020 election. His mandate ends on January 3, 2021.

Positions and Initiatives

Impeachment proceedings against President Clinton

Sensenbrenner was one of the members of the Republican Congress who brought and led the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the House of Representatives in 1998 for his false testimony in the Lewinsky affair .

USA PATRIOT Act

Sensenbrenner was one of the initiators of the USA PATRIOT Act , a law that, following 9/11, expanded the powers of the executive branch on security issues and restricted civil rights. On October 23, 2001, he submitted the bill as HR3162 to the House of Representatives for voting, which was adopted on October 24. A day later, the act was passed on to the Senate, which also adopted it.

Scythe burner Bill

The name of the MP became known beyond the borders of the USA through the so-called "Sensenbrenner Bill ", a particularly harsh legislative initiative directed against illegal immigration that was introduced by Sensenbrenner and passed in the House of Representatives on December 16, 2005 . The bill HR 4437 saw among other things, a border fence with a total length of over 1,100 kilometers on the border between Arizona and Mexico to build the Green Card program to abolish the so far as petty offense ( civil infraction ) classified illegal entry to a Upgrading crime ( felony ) ( criminalizing all undocumented immigrants living in the US) and prosecuting even those Americans who help illegal immigrants in any way. In the spring of 2006, hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the law in US cities; Protest rallies and boycotts also took place in Latin America . Because of the vehemence of the protests and because a more moderate immigration restriction bill, supported by US President George W. Bush , was already being implemented in the US Senate , the scythe blow failed.

Web links

Commons : Jim Sensenbrenner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jim Sensenbrenner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Campaign site (English)
• Scythe burner at the House of Representatives

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report to Spiegel Online , September 7, 2007.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Craig Gilbert: Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner won't run for re-election in 2020 after more than 40 years in Congress. In: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , September 4, 2019.
3. ^ David McKay: American Politics and Society. Wiley-Blackwell (2009), 283.
4. ↑ Deutschlandfunk, Background Politics, February 10, 2006