Robert Wexler

Robert Wexler ( born January 2, 1961 in New York City ) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2010 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Wexler attended Hollywood Hills High School in Florida and then studied until 1982 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. After a subsequent law studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1985 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1990 and 1996 he sat in the Senate from Florida.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Wexler was elected in the 19th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Harry A. Johnston on January 3, 1997. After six re- elections he could remain until his resignation on January 4, 2010 at the Congress. There he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Judiciary Committee and in some sub-committees. In Wexler's term as congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the war in Iraq fell. Wexler was an opponent of the policy of the federal government under George W. Bush. In Congress, he sought unsuccessfully to the initiation of impeachment proceedings against the president. As a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, he was within his group at the left- liberal wing.

After his resignation was Wexler President of the Center for Middle East Peace, an organization that tries to negotiate a peace in the Middle East. With his wife Laurie Robert Wexler has three children.

688394
de