Jim Sensenbrenner
Frank James "Jim" Sensenbrenner, Jr. ( born June 14, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American politician of the Republican Party, who represents the fifth electoral district of the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Following his studies in political science at Stanford University (Bachelor 1965) he obtained in 1968 his PhD in Law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and he began to practice as a lawyer.
From 1969 to 1975 Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin State Assembly belonged to; then he sat between 1975-1979 in the State Senate. Finally, he was elected as a deputy in the Congress in November 1978, which he belongs to the present time.
In 2001 he was elected chairman of the justice committee of the House of Representatives. The chair he held until 2007. Previously, he was already 1997 to 2001 Chairman of the Science Committee of the House of Representatives.
USA PATRIOT Act
Sensenbrenner was one of the initiators of the USA PATRIOT Act. On 23 October 2001 he laid the bill as HR3162 Congress to vote before, which was approved by Congress on October 24. A day later, the Act was passed on to the Senate, which also took him on.
Sensenbrenner Bill
Beyond the borders of the United States, the name of the MEP was known by the so -called " Sensenbrenner bill " ( Sensenbrenner Bill), the strongest anti- illegal immigration law initiative of recent years, which are introduced by Sensenbrenner as the leading representative of the anti-migration fraction and in the House of Representatives on December 16 was adopted in 2005. The bill (Bill) H.R. 4437 saw, among other things, to build a border fence with a total length of over 1,100 kilometers on the border between Arizona and Mexico to abolish the Green Card program to upgrade the to date as a petty offense ( civil infraction ) classified crossing the border illegally to commit a crime ( felony ) (and thus to criminalize all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. ) and even to persecute those American criminal who help illegal immigrant people in some form. In spring 2006, protested hundreds of thousands of protesters in various cities of the United States against the law, and also abroad, particularly in Latin America, found protests and boycotts instead, directed against a stricter U.S. immigration policy and the adoption of the Sensenbrenner Act in the U.S. Senate. So May 1, 2006 has been declared a " day without immigrants " and all immigrants were asked not to work on this day and do not participate in public life; likewise the people in Latin American countries should stop buying American products for a day. Among other things, due to the unexpectedly violent protests, but also because already supported by U.S. President George W. Bush more moderate bill was operated for immigration restriction in the Senate, failed the Sensenbrenner advance.
Others
Jim Sensenbrenner inherited shares in the company Kimberly- Clark. He says that he has a net worth of 11.6 million dollars.
He is married to Cheryl Warren Sensenbrenner. They have two children and live in Menomonee Falls ( Wisconsin).
Trivia
Sensenbrenner is a week from about ten dollars for playing the lottery. Three times already succeeded doing a larger profit in 1997 even in the amount of $ 250,000.