Honorable Jim Sensenbrenner
United States Representative, Wisconsin, Republican
Representative Sensenbrenner, of the Fifth District of Wisconsin, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1968 to 1974 and in the Wisconsin Senate from 1974 to 1978. He sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. The following is from the July 13, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. I yield myself such time as…
