Mike J. Rogers

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Mike J. Rogers

Michael J. "Mike" Rogers (born June 2, 1963 in Livingston County , Michigan ) is an American politician . From 2001 to 2015 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mike Rogers attended Adrian College in Michigan until 1985 and was a US Army soldier from 1985 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1994 he worked for the FBI in Chicago . There he was employed in the fight against corruption and organized crime. Politically, Rogers joined the Republican Party . He served in the Michigan Senate from 1995 to 2000 . There he headed the Republican parliamentary group since 1999.

Congressman

In the 2000 congressional election , Rogers was elected to the 8th constituency of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Debbie Stabenow on January 3, 2001 . After six re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2015. Most recently he was re-elected in the 2012 congressional elections with 58.6% of the vote. In 2014 he decided not to run again; his successor was again a Republican with Mike Bishop .

Rogers was, among other things, a member of the Committee on Energy and Trade and the Standing Committee on Intelligence (Chairman 2011-2015) as well as some sub-committees. He created the Cyber ​​Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which is traded as the successor to the Stop Online Piracy Act and which was adopted by the House of Representatives at the end of April 2012.

Rogers attributed the fatal attack on the US consulate in Benghazi to al-Qaeda; in fact, the attackers were the local Ansar al-Sharia group . In connection with the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 , he accused the Europeans of ingratitude because the surveillance program PRISM provided security.

Transitional team Trump

Rogers had been a member of Donald Trump's transition team since August 2016 and, as head of the national security department, played a key role in the formation of the US President-elect . On November 15, 2016, he announced his withdrawal from the transition team, whose leadership had previously been transferred from Roger's friend Chris Christie to Trump's deputy Mike Pence .

Rogers is an executive producer on the CNN television series Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies .

Mike Rogers is married and has his own private residence in Howell, Michigan .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 112th Congress (2011): HR 3523 (112th). In: Legislation. GovTrack, November 30, 2011, accessed on April 23, 2012 : "Cyber ​​Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act"
  2. ↑ US House of Representatives waves through controversial Internet law. Süddeutsche.de, April 27, 2012, accessed on May 3, 2012 .
  3. ↑ www.nytimes.com
  4. ↑ Republicans: Europe should be grateful for the surveillance. In: faz.net. October 27, 2013, accessed December 11, 2014 .
  5. ^ A b Damian Paletta, Reid J. Epstein: Former House Intel Chief Mike Rogers to Play Big Role on Donald Trump's Transition Team. wsj.com, August 9, 2016, accessed November 17, 2016 .
  6. ^ Trump Transition Team List and Assignments. In: The New York Times . documentcloud.org, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2016 (English). ( PDF )
  7. ^ Andrew Restuccia: Rogers resigns from Trump's transition team. politico.com, November 15, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  8. ↑ spiegel.de November 16, 2016: Chaos breaks out in the Trump team
  9. ^ David Smith: Chris Christie dropped as head of Trump's White House transition team. theguardian.com, November 11, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rogers, Mike J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rogers, Michael J. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Livingston County , Michigan