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'''Aaron Jon Schock''' (born May 28, 1981) is the [[United States House of Representatives|United States Representative]] for {{ushr|IL|18}}, serving since 2009. He is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. The district is based in [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] and includes part of [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]. At the age of {{age|1981|5|28}}, Schock is currently the [[List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by age|youngest U.S. Representative]] and one of the first members of the [[U.S. Congress]] born in the 1980s. Previously, Schock served two terms in the [[Illinois House of Representatives]], and was its youngest member.
'''Aaron Abdominals Schock''' (born May 28, 1981) is the [[United States House of Representatives|United States Representative]] for {{ushr|IL|18}}, serving since 2009. He is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. The district is based in [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] and includes part of [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]. At the age of {{age|1981|5|28}}, Schock is currently the [[List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by age|youngest U.S. Representative]] and one of the first members of the [[U.S. Congress]] born in the 1980s. Previously, Schock served two terms in the [[Illinois House of Representatives]], and was its youngest member.


==Early life, education and career==
==Early life, education and career==

Revision as of 02:17, 10 May 2011

Hon.
Aaron Schock
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 18th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2009
Preceded byRay LaHood
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
from the 92nd district
In office
January 12, 2005 – January 3, 2009
Preceded byRicca Slone
Succeeded byJoan Krupa
President of the Peoria School Board
In office
2004–2005
Member of the Peoria School Board
In office
2001–2005
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
Residence(s)Peoria, Illinois
Alma materIllinois Central College
Bradley University, B.S. Finance, (2002)
OccupationReal estate investor
Websiteschock.house.gov

Aaron Abdominals Schock (born May 28, 1981) is the United States Representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in Peoria and includes part of Springfield. At the age of 43, Schock is currently the youngest U.S. Representative and one of the first members of the U.S. Congress born in the 1980s. Previously, Schock served two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, and was its youngest member.

Early life, education and career

Schock was born in Morris, Minnesota,[1] the youngest of the four children[4] of Richard Schock, a family practice physician and former school board member[5][6] and Janice Schock (Knapp), a homemaker.[6][7] During Aaron's early years, the family lived on a rural farm site where the children were given the responsibility of tending a three acre patch of strawberries and selling the fruit to develop their work ethic.[8] The Schocks moved to Peoria, Illinois when Aaron was in fourth grade, where he attended Peoria's Kellar Primary school, Rolling Acres Middle School, and Richwoods High School.[8] He showed an early interest in student government, and was elected to the executive board of the Illinois Association of Junior High Student Councils in 1995.[9]

By his junior year of high school, he had completed nearly all of his graduation requirements, and had few course options available because the school district had recently discontinued most of the advanced placement and other advanced courses due to budget cuts.[10][11] School district policy did not allow him to graduate early, and the board members refused his requests to change the policy.[8][10] He began attending classes at Illinois Central College in East Peoria, earning dual credits toward high school and college graduation.[11] He graduated from Richwoods High in 2000,[8] and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University in 2002,[1] with a major in finance, after just two years of attendance at Bradley.[12]

Schock began working during the fifth grade, doing database management as an independent contractor for a bookstore chain.[13] He later bought event tickets for a licensed ticket broker, using six phone lines and 13 credit cards, and investing his earnings in the stock market.[13] When he was in the eighth grade, he began doing the accounting work for a gravel pit, a job he kept throughout his high school years.[13] During college, he invested in real estate and ran a Garage Tek - garage organizing business.[13] He then worked as director of development for Petersen Companies, the real estate development arm of a senior citizen health care provider.[13]

Early political career

Schock decided to run for the local school board a few months after graduating from high school because he felt the board needed a more diverse and youthful perspective.[8][10] After being denied a place on the ballot because he did not have the required number valid of signatures on his petition to run for office, he organized a successful write-in campaign, using more than 200 volunteers to help him visit more than 13,000 households and leave door hangers giving instructions on how to write his name on the ballots.[10] He defeated the incumbent 60% to 40%, garnering more than 6,400 write-in votes, and becoming, at age 19, the youngest person serving on a school board in Illinois.[14][15] After two years, his fellow board members elected him vice president of the board, and one year later, they unanimously elected him school board president, making him, at 23, the youngest school board president in Illinois history.[14]

Illinois legislature

During his four years in the state legislature, Schock served on two appropriations committees that were "typically reserved for more senior lawmakers", as well as the Financial Institutions, Environment & Energy and Veteran's Affairs committees.[16][17]

He was the chief sponsor of 13 bills that became law.[18] The bills dealt with education, child protection, prescription drug savings, veterans' assistance, road construction, and high-tech identity theft.[18] Though the district he represented in the state legislature included a large number of voters who were union members or who were on food stamps, Schock said, "I could vote against things like the raising minimum wage … and go back and explain to them why it didn’t make sense to raise the cost of labor...and they understood it.[13]

U.S. House of Representatives

Schock visiting the Illinois River with Bob Walters, mayor of Beardstown, Illinois

Committee assignments

During his first term, Schock requested and was given three committee assignments, which is unusual for a first-term congressman.[19] In addition, he was appointed by Minority Whip Eric Cantor to be a deputy minority whip.[19] He served as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology of the Small Business Committee. Soon after being sworn in to serve his first term, he joined the Republican Study Committee, "a home for deficit hawks", according to the Los Angeles Times.[19]

At the beginning of his second term in 2011, Schock was appointed to the highly coveted Ways and Means Committee. On the committee he serves on the Trade, Social Security and Oversight subcommittees. Schock’s appointment to the Trade subcommittee is especially relevant to the 18th District because of the synergy of economic interests relying on international trade to export products and commodities produced in Central and Western Illinois. The subcommittee on trade has oversight over reciprocal trade agreements including multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations and implementation of agreements involving tariff and nontariff trade barriers. Current trade negotiations include the pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Schock was also selected to serve on the House Administration committee. The Committee on House Administration is charged with the oversight of federal elections and the day-to-day operations of the House of Representatives.

During the first couple of months of the 112th Congress, Schock has introduced a variety of legislation. In response to an attempt by the Obama Administration to include funds in the Defense Authorization bill last December, Schock introduced legislation, H.R. 513, that would ban the use of Federal funds to transfer individuals detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay or other locations around the world from being brought to the United States.

Schock has also introduced legislation that would create the Federal Progam Sunset Commission (H.R. 606). His legislation would create a bipartisan commission made up of former Members of the House and Senate as well as outside experts to abolish federal programs that are found to be duplicative, unnecessary, inefficient, or don't meet the specific performance standards.

During the debate on the short-term Continuing Resolution that passed the House on February 19, 2011, Schock was successful in banning further funding for the creation of stimulus signs that highlight stimulus related projects around the country. Last year, Schock’s legislation to cut funding for Stimulus signs was featured on YouCut, a public outreach effort designed by House Republicans to highlight proposals aimed at reducing government spending. In turn, participants could vote for the one proposal that they would most like to see addressed by Congress. Last July, Schock’s bill was selected as a winning YouCut proposal.

On September 24, 2009, the FBI Anti-Terrorism Task Force arrested Michael Finton in downtown Springfield, Illinois, after Finton attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building and the adjacent Springfield office of Congressman Schock. The man drove a truck filled with what he believed to be "a ton of explosives" to the federal building, then drove away with an undercover FBI agent and tried to detonate the dummy explosives via cell phone. The man was arrested and placed in federal custody on charges of terrorism and attempting to kill a federal employee.[20]

Political positions

Schock is considered to be more conservative than his two moderate[21] predecessors, Congressmen Bob Michel and Ray LaHood.[4][22] The Chicago Tribune, in their endorsements for the 2008 general election, described Schock's political positions to be fiscally conservative and somewhat moderate on social issues.[23] Schock has joined both the Republican Study Committee and the Republican Main Street Partnership.

He has made renewable energy one of his main focus points. "In April of 2010, Biofuels Digest named Congressman Aaron Schock as 'One of the 10 Most Important Advocates for Renewable Energy in Washington'."[24] He is introducing[when?] a proposal, the New Renewable Energy Zero Tax, that calls for a zero percent federal income tax and zero capital-gains tax for the next twenty years on new, renewable, green-energy production in the U.S. In March 2011, Schock signed on as an original co-sponsor to a proposal by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California called "A Roadmap for America's Energy future," (H.R. 909) which is a comprehensive plan focusing on policies that promote the production of a broad range of domestic energy supplies including traditional resources as well as renewable and alternative energy sources.

During his campaign, Schock promised to secure moneys for the restoration and conservation of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. He lived up to this promise by receiving $23 million for the construction of dams and locks.[25] He is supported in his efforts to restore the health of the rivers by farmers, environmentalists, fishermen, conservationist, and river transportation companies.[citation needed]

Schock has been a leader[citation needed] in denying federal funds for transfer of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to elsewhere in the U.S. Similarly, he has fought hard to require military tribunals for their trials as opposed to civilian courts. In January 2011, Schock introduced legislation with Senator Mark Kirk (IL) to deny federal funds for the transfer of detainees to the United States.

He voted against amending federal hate-crimes laws to include crimes where the victims were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and disability.[26] He also voted against the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in December 2010.[27]

In August 2009, the Law Library of Congress issued a controversial and disputed[28] legal-opinion report, Honduras: Constitutional Law Issues, that had been commissioned by Schock. It featured a legal analysis of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis with a specific examination of the legality of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's June 28, 2009, removal from office and expatriation.[29] After the report was issued, Schock argued that the Obama Administration should change its policy towards Honduras by resuming suspended aid and recognizing the upcoming Honduran November 29, 2009, elections, based on the contents of the report.[30]

On December 15, 2009, during a discussion on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Schock stated "I don‘t believe we should—we should limit water-boarding or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique if it means saving Americans‘ lives" in a "ticking time bomb" scenario or other critical situation.[31]

Political campaigns

Schock speaking at a press conference

2004, 2006

At the age of 23, Schock ran for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives defeating four term incumbent Democrat Ricca Slone, by just 235 votes out of 40,000 ballots cast, and becoming the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly in state history.[4][12][14] Five months after taking the office, he resigned from the school board to focus on his job as a state legislator.[14] He received more than 40 percent of the African American vote when he ran for reelection in 2006, despite his opposition to race based affirmative action, garnering 58 percent of the total vote to defeat Democrat Bill Spears.[4]

2008

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2008 § District 18

Schock was elected to succeed retiring incumbent Republican congressman Ray LaHood in the 2008 election, defeating Democratic candidate Colleen Callahan and Green Party candidate Sheldon Schafer. A spokesman for the Illinois Republican Party noted the state's Republicans' ability to "hold their own" despite Illinois's Democratic Barack Obama riding to victory on the same ballot and the state Republican Party's receiving no financial support from the national party. Schock's 18th distinct, with LaHood as incumbent, was one of two Illinois Congressional seats without an incumbent running; the other open seat was won by a Democrat, but Republicans also kept all their incumbent seats.[32] The 18th district has been Republican since 1939.

In his speech announcing his candidacy for Congress, Schock said, "If China continues to be irresponsible about nuclear proliferation in Iran, we should tell them that ... we will sell Pershing nuclear missiles to Taiwan for their defense. Nonproliferation will either be enforced universally or not at all — it is their choice. The Chinese will come around, I have no doubt."[33] His campaign manager described the policy as "well thought out", but Schock later said it was "more in jest".[34]

Schock easily won the Republican primary in February 2008, with 72% of the vote,[14] beating his opponents Jim McConoughey (16%) and John Morris (12%).[35]

Schock visiting students at Whittier Elementary School in Peoria, Illinois

Schock drew mixed reaction in late July 2008 when he brought President George W. Bush to Peoria to raise money for the congressional campaign. The city of Peoria provided 38 police officers, 30 city trucks for temporary security barriers, and a number of firefighters, spending $38,252 to facilitate the visit, even though it was a private, paid-admission fundraiser. When requests to compensate the city increased, Schock called it "obviously a political move" and compared the issue to Barack Obama's endorsement of another state senator on the courthouse steps a few years before, for which the city did not request compensation.[36] A city councilman cited an ordinance against political activity by the city, but the mayor of Peoria, Jim Ardis, said the ordinance did not apply, and also called the requests "political rhetoric". Schock later said he would reimburse the city voluntarily, referring to payment for presidential protection as "unprecedented".[37]

Schock won the November 4 general election with 59% of the vote.[14] Upon taking his seat in Congress, at the age of 27, he became the youngest member of Congress, supplanting 33-year-old Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina,[38] and the first member of the United States Congress born in the 1980s.[39] On taking office, he also became only the fifth person to serve the district since 1933.

In the same election, Democrat Jehan A. Gordon won Schock's 92nd Representative District seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. However, on Schock's advice, the Republican Party appointed Joan Krupa to fill out the 9 remaining days on Schock's state legislative term before Gordon took office.[40]

2010

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2010 § District 18

Schock was challenged by Democrat D.K. Hirner, the Executive Director of the Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group, and Green nominee Sheldon Schafer.

Electoral history

General Election - 11/2/2010 Illinois' 18th Congressional District[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Aaron Schock (incumbent) 152,868 69.12
Democratic Deirdre "DK" Hirner 57,046 25.79
Green Sheldon Schafer 11,256 5.09
Republican hold
General Election - 11/4/2008 Illinois' 18th Congressional District[42]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Aaron Schock 182,589 58.88
Democratic Colleen Callahan 117,642 37.94
Green Sheldon Schafer 9,857 3.1
Republican hold
General Primary - 2/5/2008 Illinois' 18th Congressional District [43]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Aaron Schock 55,610 71.17
Republican Jim Mcconoughey 13,363 17.1
Republican John D. Morris 9,160 11.72
General Election - 11/7/2006 -Illinois General Assembly - 92nd District[44]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Aaron Schock (incumbent) 14,703 58.87
Democratic Bill Spears 10,271 41.13
Republican hold
General Election - 11/2/2004 -Illinois General Assembly - 92nd District [45]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Aaron Schock 19,719 50.3
Democratic Ricca Slone (incumbent) 19,484 49.7
Republican gain from Democratic

Personal life

Schock was chosen to give a speech at the 2008 Republican Convention,[14] and in February 2011 was made a chair of the Reagan centennial celebration.[46] He was the keynote speaker at the 2010 Illinois Central College graduation, and was given an honorary Associates' degree by the college.[47]

In February 2011, Schock, as a member of the Republican majority, was given the honor to preside over the floor of the House for more than an hour during a vote on whether to extend provisions of the Patriot Act, by the House parliamentarian and Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Schock received an unusual amount of coverage for a freshman congressman, much of it focusing on his youthful appearance.[13][19] For example, he was selected "hottest freshman" congressman in February 2009 reader poll on The Huffington Post.[2] Schock has been frequently targeted by TMZ reporters since his arrival in Washington;[48][49] he has also appeared on The Colbert Report, where Stephen Colbert, making fun of the TMZ reports, "grilled" Schock about his "six-pack abs."[50] Schock appeared on Season 7 of Top Chef as a guest judge.[51]

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  5. ^ Plank, Tami (May 20, 2009). "Looking Back". The Morris Sun Tribune. "Items taken from the Tribune, May 10, 1984...Voters will elect school board members throughout Minnesota on Tuesday, May 15. In the Morris-Donnelly district, the candidates are Lowell Roholff, Roy Larson, and incumbent Richard Felstul. Incumbents Harold Luthi and Dr. Richard Schock did not file.
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