Bachmann was named to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the th and th Congresses — Croix River connecting Minnesota to Wisconsin became law as part of a Senate package. Because the St. Croix had been designated a Wild and Scenic River in the s, the federal government had to meet specific environmental requirements before approving any new construction projects.
During her four terms in Congress, Bachmann, who supported small government policies, was increasingly critical of President Obama. She called for the strict application of constitutional principles and restrictions on the size and power of the federal government. In her bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act—a major health care reform package enacted in —passed the House.
In Bachmann declared her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Ultimately, she finished sixth in the Iowa caucus and withdrew from the race in January In she chose not to run for re-election and retired at the end of the th Congress — Cloud Times MN : 1A.
Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes, H. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U. Bachmann, Michele. According to Roll Call , "The purpose of the trip was to receive briefings on the U.
They refused to let their trip be affected by the government shutdown and made their way through the barriers. Many congressional members from both parties spoke their approval of the move, including Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was in attendance. Steve King and Rep.
Steve Palazzo aided the veterans by distracting park police and helping move the gates. On May 29, , Bachmann announced she would not seek re-election in , explaining, "The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years.
And in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for any individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district. A May 15, , poll by Public Policy Polling showed Jim Graves, Bachmann's likely Democratic challenger in , leading Bachmann 47 percent to 45 percent, respectively, with a 4.
This race would have been a rematch of the election, one that Graves lost by only 1. Bachmann had already started to run campaign ads. Bachmann ran successfully for re-election for the 6th Congressional District. Bachmann launched her campaign to run in the presidential election on June 13, She received only 5 percent of the vote in her home state of Iowa.
Ferche I in the general election. The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may not represent all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer, and campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete.
For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law. Despite Bachmann's announcement that she would not seek re-election in , her campaign committee continued to report contributions and expenditures to the Federal Election Commission.
Below are Bachmann's reports. Bachmann won election to the U. House of Representatives in Bachmann won re-election to the U. The Personal Gain Index U. Congress is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U.
Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants. It consists of two different metrics:. Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets. Bachmann ranked as the th most wealthy representative in Between and , the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was Filings required by the Federal Election Commission report on the industries that give to each candidate.
Using campaign filings and information calculated by OpenSecrets. Bachmann received the most donations from individuals and PACs employed by the Retired industry. From , Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack , Bachmann was a far-right Republican leader as of July The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often.
The results include a member from each party. According to the website GovTrack, Bachmann missed of 6, roll call votes from January to July This amounts to The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress.
Overall, Minnesota ranked 26th in average salary for representative staff. The average U. Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year.
Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress. Bachmann ranked 62nd in the conservative rankings in Bachmann ranked 80th in the conservative rankings in Bachmann ranked st in the conservative rankings in The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus. Bachmann voted with the Republican Party Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Bachmann nee Amble has been married to her husband, Marcus, for over thirty years. They have five biological children and have raised 23 foster children. They live in Stillwater, MN. Michele Bachmann News Feed. What's on my ballot? Elections in How to vote How to run for office Ballot measures. Who represents me? President U. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error.
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. This plot device roughly approximates the political and cultural mechanism that is sending Michele Bachmann hurtling in the direction of the Oval Office.
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government.
She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. I said lunch, not launch! Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau.
And Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Or maybe both are true — in which case this hard-charging challenger for the GOP nomination is a rare breed of political psychopath, equal parts crazed Divine Wind kamikaze-for-Jesus and calculating, six-faced Machiavellian prevaricator.
By her teen years, her parents had divorced; her mother remarried and brought step-siblings into the home, creating a Brady Bunchian group of nine kids. Young Michele found Jesus at age 16, not long before she went away to Winona State University and met a doltish, like-minded believer named Marcus Bachmann.
After finishing college, the two committed young Christians moved to Oklahoma, where Michele entered one of the most ridiculous learning institutions in the Western Hemisphere, a sort of highway rest area with legal accreditation called the O. Coburn School of Law; Michele was a member of its inaugural class in Those familiar with the darker chapters in George W.
Yes, this was the tiny educational outhouse that, despite being the th-ranked law school in the country, where 60 percent of graduates flunked the bar, produced a flood of entrants into the Bush Justice Department. To that end, Bachmann was mentored by a crackpot Christian extremist professor named John Eidsmoe, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society publications who once opined that he could imagine Jesus carrying an M16 and who spent considerable space in one of his books musing about the feasibility of criminalizing blasphemy.
Bachmann says she believes in a limited state, but she was educated in an extremist Christian tradition that rejects the entire notion of a separate, secular legal authority and views earthly law as an instrument for interpreting biblical values. When Bachmann finished her studies in Oklahoma, Marcus instructed her to do her postgraduate work in tax law — a command Michele took as divinely ordained.
Moving back to Minnesota, she and Marcus settled in Stillwater, a town of 18, near St. Paul, where they raised their five children and took in 23 foster kids.
Michele took a job as a tax attorney collecting for the IRS and spent the next four years sucking on the tit of the Internal Revenue Service, which makes her Tea Party-leader hypocrisy quotient about average.
Anyone wanting to understand how President Bachmann might behave should pay close attention to what happened at New Heights. Under pressure from parents, Bachmann resigned from New Heights. But the experience left her with a hang-up about the role of the state in public education. She was soon mobilizing against an educational-standards program called Profile of Learning, an early precursor to No Child Left Behind.
Under the program, state educators and local businesses teamed up to craft a curriculum that would help young people prepare for the work force — but Bachmann saw through their devious scheme. To combat this dark outcome, Bachmann joined up with a Junior Anti-Sex League-type outfit called the Maple River Education Coalition, which was largely composed of Christian conservatives rallying against educational standards.
The group met in a church, and its sessions resembled old-time religious revivals, complete with whooping and hollering. Maple River eventually morphed into an organization called EdWatch, which railed against various dystopian indoctrination plans, including the U.
In , she joined four other Republicans in Stillwater in an attempt to seize control of the school board.
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