Tim Huelskamp

Tim Huelskamp (2011)

Timothy Alan "Tim" Huelskamp (born November 11, 1968 in Fowler , Meade County , Kansas ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ). From 2011 to 2017 he represented the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives . After losing the party primary in August 2016 , his mandate ended in January 2017.

Career

Tim Huelskamp attended the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico until 1991 . He then studied until 1995 at the American University in Washington, DC In the meantime, he worked as a farmer and teacher. He also worked as a household analyst for the state of New Mexico. He later returned to Kansas. Between 1996 and 2010 he was a member of the Kansas Senate . There he was a member of five committees, including the committees on education and agriculture. He had to resign from the tax committee after disputes with the committee management.

In the 2010 congressional election , which was victorious for Republicans in general and especially for the radical Tea Party movement , Huelskamp was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first congressional constituency of Kansas , where he was elected on January 3, 2011 the successor to the US Senate changed mandate holder Jerry Moran took over. He is a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus , which is closely related to the Tea Party movement and which he chaired after taking office. He was inducted into the Agriculture Committee , the Budget Committee, and the Veterans Committee, and three sub-committees.

In 2012 he was elected for a further legislative period without an opponent. Huelskamp repeatedly rejected budget laws and debt ceilings that his party had proposed because they did not go far enough for him. He was also conservative in terms of social policy; Following a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that allowed homosexual marriages nationwide , he advocated the reintroduction of the Defense of Marriage Act . In late 2012 he had to leave the Budget and Agriculture Committee after falling out with the Republican party leadership in Congress. Huelskamp was then charged with the fact that he could no longer effectively represent the interests of his rural constituency in Washington. As one of the leaders of the revolt against the Speaker of the House John Boehner , he tried to replace him with Jim Jordan in early 2013 .

Promoted by his congress activities, often referred to as obstruction, he received a serious challenger in the 2014 Republican primary for the House of Representatives in Alan LaPolice, whom he defeated by ten percent. Huelskamp passed the actual election in November 2014 without any difficulties and took up another two-year term as Congressman on January 3, 2015. After Boehner's speaker office changed to Paul Ryan in 2015, cooperation with the party leadership improved, even if he was unable to return to the Agriculture Committee as desired; Huelskamp was accepted into the House Republican Steering Committee , which decides on the internal distribution of committee seats. However, he lost the internal Republican area code for the general election on August 2, 2016 against Roger Marshall, who was favored by the establishment and business associations, despite nationwide support from right-wing politicians such as Ted Cruz and publicists such as Laura Ingraham . The costly election campaign was funded by national interest groups, for Huelskamp by the Club for Growth , against him by the United States Chamber of Commerce . Huelskamp was the third Republican in the US House of Representatives to lose a primary this year, and the first not to lose after his constituency was redistricted. He attributed his performance to the Washington elites and interest groups, whom he viewed as being instrumentalized by his own party leadership. Political observers understood his defeat as an expression of the growing dissatisfaction of many Republicans with the increasing populist polarization, which was promoted not only by the Tea Party, but also by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump . The conservative National Review attributed the defeat to the fact that the republican regular voters - like the voters of Trump - would orient themselves less on ideologies than on results and would revolt against existing institutions. For the Wall Street Journal , Huelskamp missed his chance to implement reforms for a free market against powerful interest groups because his congressional work was exhausted in total rejection.

Huelskamp left the congress on January 3, 2017. In July 2017 he takes over the presidency of the conservative and libertarian think tank The Heartland Institute .

He is married and has four adopted daughters.

Web links

• Campaign website (English)
• Tim Huelskamp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Tim Huelskamp in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Kristina Peterson: Tea Party Rep. Tim Huelskamp Loses Kansas Republican Primary to Roger Marshall. In: The Wall Street Journal , August 2, 2016.
2. ↑ Ginger Gibson: Huelskamp will try to restore DOMA. In: Politico , June 26, 2013 (English).
3. ↑ Nick Wing: Tim Huelskamp: John Boehner Guilty Of 'Petty, Vindictive Politics' In Committee Ousters. In: The Huffington Post , December 12, 2012.
4. ↑ Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan: Conservatives rebel against Boehner. In: Politico , January 3, 2013 (English).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tim Alberta: A Lesson From Tim Huelskamp's Loss. In: National Review , August 3, 2016.
6. ↑ Nathan L. Gonzalez: Huelskamp's Loss Could Embolden the Freedom Caucus. In: Roll Call , August 2, 2016 (English).
7. ↑ Tim Huelskamp: I lost my seat in Congress because I stood up to Washington elites. In: The Washington Post , August 5, 2016.
8. ↑ The Huelskamp Mistake: Why did a conservative lose in one of the most conservative districts? In: The Wall Street Journal , August 3, 2016.
9. ^ Scott Wong: Tea Party favorite to lead conservative think tank. In: The Hill. June 29, 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .