Raúl Labrador

Raúl Rafael Labrador ( born December 8, 1967 in Carolina, Puerto Rico) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

As a teenager Raúl Labrador came with his mother to Las Vegas in Nevada. Later he studied until 1992 at Brigham Young University in Provo ( Utah). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and his 1995 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Later he settled in Idaho. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 2006 and 2010 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Idaho. There he successfully lobbied against the increase in petrol prices.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Labrador was the first electoral district of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of him previously defeated Democrat Walt Minnick on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in a total of six subcommittees. He also is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference and the Republican Study Committee. With his wife, Rebecca, he has five children.

In the congressional elections in 2012 Labrador sat down with 63:31 percent of the vote to Democrat Jimmy Farris by a former NFL professional football player ..