Michael F. Doyle

Michael F. "Mike" Doyle ( * August 5, 1953 in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 1995 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Doyle attended to 1971 Swissvale Area High School. Then he studied until 1975 at the State College of Pennsylvania State University. Politically he was first a member of the Republican Party. Later he moved to the Democratic Party. From 1979 to 1994 he worked for the State Senator Frank Pecora. Since 1982 he has also worked for an insurance company.

In the congressional elections of 1994, Doyle was in the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Rick Santorum January 3, 1995. After the previous eight elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. Since 2003 he is representing as the successor to William J. Coyne the 14th district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. He is a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as in two sub-committees. Michael Doyle from the beginning was an opponent of the Iraq war.