Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
Michele Marie Bachmann is an American politician. A Republican, she is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district, a post she held from 2007 to 2015. The district includes several of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, as well as St. Cloud...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 April 1956
CityWaterloo, IA
CountryUnited States of America
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.