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Michele Bachmann

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Michele Bachmann currently serves the 6th Congressional district of Minnesota

Michele M. Bachmann has been a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the Sixth Congressional District of Minnesota, since 2007. (map)

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Record and controversies

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Iraq War

For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.
  • Bachmann supports President Bush's policies in Iraq and believes the military must "stay the course." [1] [2][3]

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Social security

  • Bachmann favors privatization of Social Security. [4][5]

Minimum wage

  • Bachmann opposes minimum wage increases. [6]

Gay rights/marriage

  • Bachmann supports a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. [7]

Biography

Bachmann was born on April 6, 1956. She graduated from Anoka High School in 1974. She then attended Winona State College, from which she graduated in 1978 with a degree in political science and English. [8].

She met her future husband, Marcus Bachmann, at Winona; they began dating in 1976 while working together on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. The couple married in 1978 and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bachmann's husband, Marcus Bachmann, operates a Christian counseling center in the St. Croix valley area. He has a master's degree in counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati. [9]

After moving to Tulsa, Michele Bachmann enrolled at the Bible-based Coburn School of Law, an affiliate of Oral Roberts University. She earned a Juris Doctorate at Coburn in 1986, and a post-doctorate degree from William and Mary Law School in Virginia in 1988.

From 1988 to 1993, Bachmann was a U.S. Treasury Department attorney in St. Paul, Minnesota, representing the IRS against people who underpaid or failed to pay their taxes [10]. Bachmann left that job to become a full-time mother. She has also had more than twenty foster children in her care. [11]

Minnesota state legislature

In 1999, Bachmann ran as one of a slate of GOP candidates for the Stillwater, Minnesota school board, normally a non-partisan election. She and the other GOP-endorsed candidates did not win.

In 2000, Bachmann won election as a state senator when she unseated fellow Republican Gary Laidig, who had held the seat for 28 years. Bachmann had won the GOP endorsement; the two then faced each other in the primary. In the general election, Bachmann defeated DFL nominee Ted Thompson.

In 2002, Bachmann faced a 10-year incumbent, DFL state senator Jane Krentz, after district lines were redrawn following the 2000 census. Bachmann won the election by 9 percentage points.

Congressional career

2006 elections

Bachmann defeated Democrat Patty Wetterling 50% to 42% in the 2006 congressional elections to replace Rep. Mark Kennedy, who vacated the seat to run for the U.S. Senate. [12]

Money in politics

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Fundraising profile: 2006 election cycle Career totals
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Committees and Affiliations

  • House Committee on Financial Services
    • Subcommitee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
    • Subcommitee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology
    • Subcommitee on Oversight and Investigations

More Background Data

Contact

DC Office:
412 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2331
Fax: (202) 225-6475
Web Email
Website

District Office- Woodbury:
6043 Hudson Rd
Woodbury, MN 55125
Phone: 651-731-5400
Fax: 651-731-6650

St. Cloud/Waite Park:
110 2nd Street S, Suite 232
Waite Park, MN 56387
Phone: 320-253-5931
Fax: 320-240-6905

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Current Office: U.S. House of Representatives
111th Congress
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Committees: House Committee on Financial Services, House Committee on Financial Services/Subcommittee on Capital Markets Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, House Committee on Financial Services/Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy Trade and Technology, House Committee on Financial Services/Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Congressional Career
First Elected to Current Office:
November 7, 2006		 First Took Current Office:
January 4, 2007		 Next Election:
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District Offices:
1. 6043 Hudson Rd, Woodbury, MN 55125
Phone: 651-731-5400 / Fax: 651-731-6650
2. 110 2nd Street S, Suite 232, Waite Park, MN 56387
Phone: 320-253-5931 / Fax: 320-240-6905
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Date of Birth: June 6, 1956
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