Larry Bucshon

Larry Bucshon (2011)

Larry Dean Bucshon (born May 31, 1962 in Taylorville , Illinois ) is an American politician . Since January 3, 2011, he has represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Larry Bushon grew up in Kincaid in Christian County and then studied until 1984 at the University of Illinois in Urbana . After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago and his license as a doctor in 1989, he began to work in his new profession. As a result, he was trained as a heart specialist at various hospitals. Between 1989 and 1999, Bucshon was also a member of the US Navy Reserve .

Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In the 2010 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Indiana , with 57.5 percent of the vote against Trent Van Haaften , a Democratic MP in the Indiana House of Representatives ; this election victory was in the federal trend in favor of the Republican Party. On January 3, 2011, he succeeded Democrat Brad Ellsworth , who had unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the US Senate . After three re-elections so far in 2012, 2014 and 2016, he can continue to exercise his office today. His new legislative term runs until January 3, 2019 with the option of a further candidacy in 2018.

In Congress was Bucshon member of the Education and Labor Committee , the Committee on Science, Space and Technology and the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure . In total he was a member of eight sub-committees. He later became a member of the Trade and Energy Committee and three of its sub-committees. Among other things, he advocates the repeal of the health reform that was passed in 2009. On October 29, 2019, he voted as one of 11 members of the House of Representatives against the resolution classifying the murder and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

Larry Bucshon has four children with his wife, Kathryn, a doctor.

swell

• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Larry Bucshon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Larry Bucshon in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H.Res. 296: Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. govtrack, October 29, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .