Mike Capuano

Michael Everett "Mike" Capuano ( born January 9, 1952 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Since 1999, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mike Capuano attended the Somerville High School until 1969 and then until 1973, Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent study of law at Boston College Law and its 1977 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1978 and 1984 he was a senior legal adviser to the Joint Tax Committee of both Houses of the Massachusetts General Court Politically, Capuano joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1977 to 1979 and again from 1985 to 1989 he sat in the council in Somerville. Between 1990 and 1998 he was mayor there.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Capuano was in the eighth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Patrick Kennedy on 3 January 1999. After the previous six elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He is sitting in five sub-committees. Capuano supports the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. After the death of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy in 2009, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the upcoming election, which went to Martha Coakley. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

With his wife, Mike Capuano has two children. The family lives privately in Somerville.