Tom Feeney

Thomas Charles "Tom" Feeney III ( born May 21, 1958 in Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 2003 and 2009 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Feeney attended until 1980, the Penn State University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pittsburgh and its made ​​in 1983 admitted to the bar he began in Oviedo, a suburb of Orlando, Florida, to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1990 and 1994, and again from 1996 to 2002 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida, which he was president in 2000. In 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

In the congressional elections of 2002, Feeney was in the then newly created 24th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 2003. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009, three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Iraq war and its consequences. Feeney was considered one of the most conservative members of Congress. He was a member of the Finance Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology and in six subcommittees. In 2006 he was accused of corruption by accepting gifts. In August 2003, he made ​​headlines when he got paid for a trip to Scotland to a golf tournament of the later convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff for corruption.

In the congressional elections of 2008, Tom Feeney defeated Democrat Suzanne Kosmas of. He is married to Ellen Stewart and private lives in Oviedo.