Richard Burr

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Richard Burr (2009)

Richard Burr Mauze (* the 30th November 1955 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2005 he has represented the state of North Carolina in the United States Senate .

Richard Burr grew up in Winston-Salem , North Carolina, then he attended Wake Forest University and graduated there in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts. Prior to his political career, Burr was a businessman in Winston-Salem. He has been married to Brooke Fauth since 1984 and they have two sons.

In 1992 Burr first ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives , but was defeated by the Democratic mandate holder Stephen L. Neal . Two years later, Neal failed to run, whereupon Burr won the election against AP Sands and entered Congress as the representative of the 5th  Congressional constituency of North Carolina . It was confirmed in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002, respectively.

In July 2004, he won the Republican Party primary and became the Republican candidate in the 2004 North Carolina Senate election . The previous holder of the Senate mandate, John Edwards , did not run again. Burr prevailed against the Democratic candidate Erskine Bowles , former White House chief of staff , by five percentage points and took up his mandate on January 3, 2005. In the 2010 election he was reelected against Elaine Marshall with 55 percent of the vote . Since he was re-elected in the 2016 election , Burr has another six-year mandate until January 3, 2023.

In the Senate, Burr belongs or was a member of the Armed Forces Committee , the Energy Committee , the Health, Education and Labor Committee , the Veterans Committee, and the Intelligence Committee .

Burr is considered a politically conservative. In fact, GovTrack.us has him listed right of the moderate Democrats. He supported the policies of US President George W. Bush during his tenure. Just like him, he is a vehement opponent of abortion, supports the death penalty and advocates a constitutional amendment that should ban same-sex marriages.

In 2020, Burr was faced with serious allegations. Burr had inside knowledge as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which held daily briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic . By selling the majority of his shares on February 12 and 13, 2020, worth around $ 1.7 million, he and his wife avoided high price losses. The sales concerned stocks from the industries hardest hit by the corona crisis, while he publicly stressed in a newspaper in February 2020 that the US was “better than ever” prepared for an epidemic. The government and Congress had set all the necessary groundwork. At the meeting of the exclusive group Tar Heel Club in front of political insiders from North Carolina , Burr also announced serious economic problems caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, as a sound recording shows. In 2012, he voted against the Stock Act , the insider trading law for MPs , in the US Senate .

In May 2020, the FBI confiscated his cell phone. On suspicion of insider trading, Burr resigned from chairing the committee until the end of the investigation.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shane Goldmacher: Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr Were Briefed on Coronavirus. Then They Sold Stocks. What now? In: nytimes.com. March 20, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Eric Lipton, Nicholas Fandos, Sharon LaFraniere, Julian E. Barnes: Stock Sales by Senator Richard Burr Ignite Political Uproar. In: nytimes.com. March 20, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ After 9/11, Richard Burr Selfishly Ignored a Tip About Domestic Spying. Now He's Betrayed Americans Again , article by James Risen in The Intercept March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ P. 2038 (112th): STOCK Act , accessed March 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-13/fbi-serves-warrant-on-senator-stock-investigation
personal data
SURNAME Burr, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burr, Richard Mauze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottesville , Virginia