Randy Neugebauer
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Randy Neugebauer
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| In office 2003-present |
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| Preceded by | Larry Combest |
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| Born | December 24, 1949 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Dana Collins |
| Residence | Lubbock, Texas |
| Alma mater | Texas Tech University |
| Occupation | real estate developer |
| Religion | Baptist |
Randy Neugebauer (born December 24, 1949) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 19th Congressional district. The district includes a large swath of West Texas, including Lubbock and Abilene. He was sworn in on June 5, 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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[edit] Early life and education
Neugebauer (pronounced NAW GUH BOWER) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Lubbock. He graduated from Coronado High School and later from Texas Tech University in 1972 with a bachelor of business administration in accounting.[1]
Neugebauer has long been involved in the real estate business, having served as president of the development company Lubbock Land before his election to Congress. He was also the president of the state Homebuilders Association from 1996-1997.[2]
He is married to his high school sweetheart, Dana.
[edit] Political life
Neugebauer was a Lubbock city councilman from 1992 to 1998. He was mayor pro tempore from 1994 to 1996. While involved in Lubbock government, Neugebauer worked to reduce taxes and to privatize city services.
Neugebauer was elected to Congress after a hotly contested special election runoff in the spring of 2003. The seat came open after 18-year Republican incumbent Larry Combest announced his retirement not long after having been reelected to a 10th term in 2002. The 19th is one of the most conservative areas of Texas (indeed, in the entire nation), and it was taken for granted that Combest would be succeeded by another Republican.[3]
Neugebauer finished first in the crowded seven-way, all-Republican field. However, as he finished well short of a majority, he forced into a second round of balloting with fellow Republican Mike Conaway of Midland, the chairman of the Texas Board of Public Accountancy and a friend of President George W. Bush. In a close third-place finish in the first round of balloting was State Representative Carl Isett of Lubbock. In the runoff election, Neugebauer defeated Conaway by only 587 votes, becoming only the fourth person to represent the 19th since its creation in 1935. Soon afterward, Conaway won election to Congress in the newly created 11th District in 2004.
Neugebauer ran for a full term in 2004, facing 26-year incumbent Democrat Charles Stenholm of Abilene. Stenholm had previously represented the Abilene-based 17th District, but that district had been dismantled in the 2003 Texas redistricting. The largest chunk of Stenholm's former territory was thrown into Neugebauer's district. Although Stenholm had more seniority, the new district retained about 60 percent of Neugebauer's former territory. Neugebauer won by 10 points, and was reelected in 2006 and 2008 with no substantive opposition.
Neugebauer is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act[1] and voted for H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.[2] In 2008, he opposed H.R. 5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act (a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined "unlawful Internet gambling").
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[edit] External links
- Congressman Randy Neugebauer official U.S. House website
- Randy Neugebauer for U.S. Congress official campaign website
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
- Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
- Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
- Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
- Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
- Profile at SourceWatch Congresspedia
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| Preceded by Larry Combest |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 19th congressional district 2003 – present |
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