Dan Lungren

Dan Lungren
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 3rd district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2005
Preceded by	Doug Ose
29th California Attorney General
In office January 7, 1991 – January 4, 1999
Governor	Pete Wilson
Preceded by	John Van de Kamp
Succeeded by	Bill Lockyer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 42nd district
In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1989
Preceded by	Duncan Hunter
Succeeded by	Dana Rohrabacher
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 34th district
In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983
Preceded by	Mark W. Hannaford
Succeeded by	Esteban Edward Torres
Personal details
Born	September 22, 1946 (1946-09-22) Long Beach, California
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Bobbi Lungren
Residence	Gold River, California
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University Law Center
Occupation	attorney
Religion	Roman Catholic

Daniel Edward "Dan" Lungren (born September 22, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for California's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2005. The district covers most of Sacramento County and part of Solano County, as well as all of Alpine, Amador and Calaveras counties. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Republican Study Committee.

Lungren previously represented the Long Beach area in Congress, from 1979 to 1989, and served as California's Attorney General from 1991 to 1999.

Early life, education and career

Dan Lungren was born in Long Beach, California, of Irish, Swedish, and Scottish extraction. From 1952, Lungren's father was the personal physician and a close friend of former President Richard Nixon.

Lungren graduated from St. Anthony High School in 1964 and matriculated to the University of Notre Dame, where he earned an A.B. with honors in English in 1968.

He returned to California to chair Youth for Nixon during Nixon's first successful run for the presidency.

Lungren began his legal studies at the University of Southern California Law School but transferred to Georgetown University Law Center, where he earned his J.D. in 1971. During his years at Georgetown, Lungren worked for U.S. Senators George Murphy (R-CA) and Bill Brock (R-TN). From 1971 to 1972, he also was Special Assistant to the Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee (R-NC). In addition, during that time, Lungren's wife, Bobbi, worked in the Nixon White House.

When Lungren returned to Long Beach, he joined a law firm and practiced civil law for a short time before running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1976. He was successful in 1978.

U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1989)

Lungren first served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989, representing portions of Long Beach and Orange County. He was one of Newt Gingrich's chief lieutenants during this time, and was a founding member of the Conservative Opportunity Society. He served on the House Judiciary Committee, where he pushed for sanctions against employers who hired illegal immigrants, but supported a temporary guest-worker program. He was the principal House cosponsor of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill, which became the Immigration Reform Act of 1986. He also independently sponsored a "guest worker" bill, designed to allow for importation of "temporary" immigrant laborers.^{[citation needed]}

California statewide offices

Lungren did not seek re-election to the U.S. House when California Governor George Deukmejian appointed him as California's acting State Treasurer, but was never confirmed. According to the San Francisco Chronicle Democrats "praised Lungren's integrity, but said they were unwilling to vote for a Republican whose congressional voting record was so conservative".^{[citation needed]}

Lungren was later elected as California Attorney General in 1990, and served from 1991–1999. Lungren worked in passing such legislation as "Megan's Law," "3-Strikes-and-You're-Out", "Sexual Anti-Predator Act" and the "California's Safe Schools Plan".^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, he was considered as a possible running mate for Republican nominee Bob Dole. In 1998 Lungren ran as the Republican candidate for governor against Democratic Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis. Davis received 57.9% of the votes, while Lungren got 38.4%. During the campaign, Davis maintained that Lungren, who presented himself as the political heir to former California Governor and US President Ronald Reagan, was too conservative for California. Davis also criticized Lungren's hesitancy, as California Attorney General, to enforce laws restricting assault weapons and his waiting until the last minute to become part of a class action lawsuit against the cigarette industry.

Return to Congress

Lungren was reappointed to the Judiciary Committee based on his previous five terms of seniority, and also serves on the Homeland Security committee.

In 2005, Lungren supported the USA PATRIOT Act, which renewed the Federal Government's ability to perform secret surveillance including wiretaps of citizens and monitoring of public and private computer packet-switched networks to prevent terrorism from hitting the United States.

In 2006, Lungren and Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) authored the SAFE Port Act, which improves security at the ports including additional requirements for maritime facilities, foreign port assessments, container security initiatives and Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism. The bill passed the House with bipartisan support. In 2007, Lungren was appointed to the House Administration Committee.^{[citation needed]}

On April 4, 2007, Lungren cosponsored a bill indicating that U.S. citizenship is a privilege and should be granted to children born to U.S. citizens or residents with legal immigration status in the U.S., not grant automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.^{[citation needed]}

On July 29, 2008, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6295, introduced by Lungren. This legislation is to stop the use of submersible and semi-submersible vessels used to transport drugs and other contrabands, which pose a threat to communities and national security. Shortly after the 2008 election, a newly reelected Lungren challenged Congressman John Boehner for Minority Leader. Lungren did not win the post. Boehner appointed Lungren as Ranking Republican Member of the House Administration Committee. To serve on this new role, Lungren left his spot with the Budget Committee.

On December 3, 2010, following the November 2 midterm elections in which Republicans won back the majority, Lungren was named Chairman of the House Administration Committee.

The National Journal's Cook Political Report named Lungren the Republican most vulnerable to redistricting in 2012.

Committee assignments

• Committee on House Administration (Chairman)
• Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
  • Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
  • Task Force on Judicial Impeachment
• Committee on Homeland Security
  • Subcommittee on Transportation Security
  • Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies (Chairman)
• Joint Committee on Printing
• Joint Committee on the Library

• Republican Study Committee

Political campaigns

2004

Lungren ran for Congress again in the 3rd Congressional District after six-year incumbent Congressman Doug Ose announced his retirement. Lungren has stated that his desire to serve in Congress again was rekindled by the September 11, 2001 attacks. He won a come from behind victory in a three-way primary against Mary Ose and State Senator Rico Oller in 2004.

2010

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2010#District 3

Lungren was challenged by Democratic nominee Dr. Ami Bera, American Independent Jerry Leidecker, Peace and Freedom nominee Mike Roskey, and Libertarian Douglas Art Tuma. Lungren was reelected with 50.6 % of the vote, with Bera accumulating 42.7%, and 6.7% to other candidates.

Electoral history

United States House of Representatives elections, 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Democratic	Mark W. Hannaford (incumbent)	100,988	50.7%
	Republican	Dan Lungren	98,147	49.3%
Totals			199,135	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Democratic hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren	90,554	53.7%
	Democratic	Mark W. Hannaford (incumbent)	73,608	43.7%
	American Independent	Lawrence John Stafford	4,410	2.6%
Totals			168,572	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican gain from Democratic

United States House of Representatives elections, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	138,024	71.8%
	Democratic	Simone	46,351	24.1%
	Peace and Freedom	John S. Donohue	7,794	4.1%
Totals			192,169	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	142,845	69.0%
	Democratic	James P. Spellman	58,690	28.3%
	Peace and Freedom	John S. Donohue	5,514	2.7%
Totals			207,049	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	177,783	73.0%
	Democratic	Mary Lou Brophy	60,025	24.6%
	Peace and Freedom	John S. Donohue	5,811	2.4%
Totals			243,619	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	140,364	72.8%
	Democratic	Michael P. Blackburn	47,586	24.7%
	Peace and Freedom	Kate McClatchy	4,761	2.5%
Totals			192,711	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

California Attorney General election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren	3,407,927	46.8%
	Democratic	Arlo Smith	3,379,021	46.4%
	Libertarian	Paul N. Gautreau	256,378	3.5%
	Peace and Freedom	Robert J. Evans	242,871	3.3%
Totals			7,286,197	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican gain from Democratic

California Attorney General election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent}	4,363,760	54.0%
	Democratic	Tom Umberg	3,189,836	39.4%
	Libertarian	Richard Burns	275,265	3.4%
	Peace and Freedom	Robert J. Evans	259,073	3.2%
Totals			8,087,934	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

California gubernatorial election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Democratic	Gray Davis	4,860,702	58.0%
	Republican	Dan Lungren	3,218,030	38.4%
	Green	Dan Hamburg	104,179	1.2%
	Libertarian	Steve Kubby	73,845	0.9%
	Peace and Freedom	Gloria La Riva	59,218	0.7%
	American Independent	Nathan Johnson	37,964	0.4%
	Natural Law	Harold H. Bloomfield	31,237	0.4%
Totals			8,385,175	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Democratic gain from Republican

United States House of Representatives elections, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren	177,738	62.0%
	Democratic	Gabe Castillo	100,025	34.8%
	Libertarian	Douglas Arthur Tuma	9,310	3.2%
Totals			287,073	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	135,709	59.5%
	Democratic	Bill Durston	86,318	37.9%
	Libertarian	Douglas Arthur Tuma	3,772	1.6%
	Peace and Freedom	Michael Roskey	2,370	1.0%
Totals			228,169	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

United States House of Representatives elections, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	155,424	49.5%
	Democratic	Bill Durston	137,971	44.0%
	Peace and Freedom	Dina J. Padilla	13,378	4.2%
	Libertarian	Douglas Arthur Tuma	7,273	2.3%
Totals			314,046	100.0%
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

California's 3rd congressional district election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Republican	Dan Lungren (incumbent)	131,169	50.1%
	Democratic	Ami Bera	113,128	43.2%
	American Independent	Jerry L. Leidecker	6,577	2.5%
	Libertarian	Douglas Arthur Tuma	6,275	2.4%
	Peace and Freedom	Mike Roskey	4,789	1.8%
Totals			261,938	100.0%
	Republican hold

Personal life

Lungren and his wife Bobbi have three children and six grandchildren. In 2010 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.

External links

• U.S. Congressman Dan Lungren official U.S. House site
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Campaign contributions at the National Institute for Money in State Politics
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Profile at Sourcewatch

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Mark W. Hannaford	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 34th congressional district 1979–1983	Succeeded by Esteban Edward Torres
Preceded by Duncan Hunter	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 42nd congressional district 1983–1989	Succeeded by Dana Rohrabacher
Preceded by Doug Ose	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 3rd congressional district 2005–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Bob Brady Pennsylvania	Chairman of the House Administration Committee 2011–present	Succeeded by Incumbent
United States order of precedence
Preceded by Jo Ann Emerson R-Missouri	United States Representatives by seniority 116th	Succeeded by Robert Aderholt R-Alabama
Party political offices
Preceded by Pete Wilson	Republican Party nominee for Governor of California 1998	Succeeded by Bill Simon
Legal offices
Preceded by John Van de Kamp	California Attorney General 1991–1999	Succeeded by Bill Lockyer