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Patricia Lips
Patricia Lips in 2020
Member of the Bundestag for Odenwald
Incumbent
Assumed office
2002
Preceded byErika Ober
Personal details
Born (1963-12-21) 21 December 1963 (age 60)
Milan, Italy
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Patricia Lips (born 21 December 1963) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for Odenwald in the state of Hesse since 2002.

Political career

Lips first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2002 German federal election.[1] She served on the Finance Committee from 2004 until 2013 and later chaired the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment from 2014 until 2017.

Following the 2018 elections, Lips became a member of the Budget Committee[2] – where she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media[3] – and of its so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium), which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

From March 2020 to January 2021, Lips managed the campaign of Friedrich Merz in the 2021 CDU leadership election.

Since 2021, Lips has been serving as one her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of chair Ralph Brinkhaus. In this capacity, she oversees the group’s legislative activities on European affairs and human rights.[4] In addition, she has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[5]

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Lips voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Patricia Lips". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ^ Dieter Scholz (28 April 2019), Stadt Warburg wartet auf zugesagte Fördergelder für Holsterburg Neue Westfälische.
  4. ^ Neuaufstellung der Union: Spahn ist jetzt Stellvertreter des Fraktionsvorsitzenden Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 December 2021.
  5. ^ Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly Bundestag.
  6. ^ Senate, as of 1 January 2021 Leibniz Association.
  7. ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, 30 June 2017.
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