James Otis "Jim" McCrery, III, (born September 18, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana), is an American politician and has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988; he represents the 4th District of Louisiana (map). McCrery is the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican Main Street Partnership (a group of moderate Republicans). Had the Republicans maintained control of the U.S. House in 2007, he would have been in line to chair the Ways and Means Committee. Instead, the slot went to the veteran Democrat Charles Rangel of Harlem in New York City. Image File history File links Jim_McCrery. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... The 4th Louisiana Congressional District contains northwestern Louisiana. ... For the ecclesiastical office, see Incumbent (ecclesiastical). ... is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Charles Elson Buddy Roemer, III, was governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992 and a Democratic member of the U.S. House from 1981-1988. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... : Port City , River City , Rachet City : The Next Great City of the South United States Louisiana Caddo 117. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... : Port City , River City , Rachet City : The Next Great City of the South United States Louisiana Caddo 117. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The 4th Louisiana Congressional District contains northwestern Louisiana. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... The Committee on Ways and Means is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is the Republican Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Republicans to that body. ... The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group of social liberals and moderates in the United States Republican Party. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic... Charles Bernard Rangel Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, American politician. ... This article is about the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Before Congress

McCrery grew up in Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish. He graduated from Leesville High School in 1967. In 1971, McCrery earned a bachelor of arts degree in both English and history from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish. Thereafter, he obtained a law degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1975. McCrery joined the law firm of Jackson, Smith & Ford in Leesville, where he worked from 1975 to 1978, and served in Shreveport as an assistant city attorney from 1979 to 1980. The small city of Leesville is the parish seat of Vernon Parish, in the US state of Louisiana. ... Vernon Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology... The title page to The Historians History of the World. ... // Louisiana Tech University, located in Ruston, Louisiana is a coeducational public institution of higher learning with an approximate enrollment of 12,000 students. ... The city of Ruston is the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Lincoln Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

From 1981 to 1984, McCrery worked as a district manager and later as a legislative director for then Democratic Congressman Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer, III. He returned to Louisiana in 1984 to work for Georgia Pacific Corporation, where he remained until his election to Congress four years later. Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Charles Elson Buddy Roemer, III, was governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992 and a Democratic member of the U.S. House from 1981-1988. ... Georgia-Pacific Corp. ...

Congressional career

After Roemer resigned from Congress to become governor, McCrery ran for his former boss' seat as a Republican. List of Governors of Louisiana First French Era Sieur Sauvole de la Villantry 1699-1701 Jean Baptiste de la Moyne, Sieur de Bienville 1701-1713 Antonine de la Mothe Cadillac 1713-1716 Jean Baptiste de la Moyne 1716-1717 De lEpinay 1717-1718 Jean Baptiste de la Moyne 1718...

McCrery emerged from the special election in a runoff with Democratic State Senator Foster L. Campbell, Jr., of Elm Grove in Bossier Parish. A third contender, Shreveport journalist and then public relations man Stanley R. Tiner, was eliminated in the first round of voting. (As of 2006, Tiner was a Pulitzer Prize–winning executive editor and vice president of the Biloxi-Gulfport newspaper, the Sun Herald.) Tiner was considered the most liberal of the three major candidates. Campbell had also run for this House seat in 1980 but failed to make the general election. In 2002, Democrat Campbell vacated the state Senate after twenty-six years when he was elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. McCrery became only the sixth Republican to represent Louisiana in the House since the end of Reconstruction. In his bid for a full term in 1988, he handily defeated Adeline McDade Roemer (born 1923), the Democratic mother of his former benefactor Buddy Roemer. A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... Foster L. Campbell, Jr. ... Bossier Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) is an independent regulatory agency serving the public of Louisiana by managing its public utilities and motor carriers. ... For other uses, see Reconstruction (disambiguation). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1992, Louisiana lost a district as a result of sluggish population growth during the 1980s. Also, the state was ordered to draw a second black-majority district by the Justice Department. The legislature responded by shifting most of Shreveport and Bossier City's black voters into a new 4th District. Most of McCrery's former territory was merged with the 5th District, represented by 16-year incumbent Jerry Huckaby. On paper, McCrery was in serious danger, since Huckaby retained nearly all of his former territory. However, the old 4th was considerably more urbanized than the old 5th, and 60% of the new 5th's voters had been represented by McCrery. Also, the new 5th was only 5% black (compared with a 30% black population in the old 5th). McCrery was thus such a heavy favorite that national Democratic leaders wrote off the seat as a loss and urged Huckaby to retire. Huckaby chose to stay in the race, and was heavily defeated. To date, McCrery is the only Louisiana Republican to have unseated a Democratic incumbent at the federal level. Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. “Justice Department” redirects here. ... Thomas Jerald Jerry Huckaby is a Virginia real estate president who was a Democratic congressman from northeastern Louisiana between 1977 and 1993. ...

McCrery has not faced serious opposition since he defeated Huckaby. His district was renumbered as the 4th again in 1997, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the majority-black, Alexandria-to-Baton Rouge 4th was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Alexandria is a city in Louisiana and the parish seat of Rapides Parish. ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ...

In the mid-term election of 2006, McCrery defeated Democratic challengers Patti Cox and Artis Cash and conservative Republican Chester T. Kelley,^[1] a Shreveport businessman who advertises his catfish restaurant on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. The first round of the Louisiana House election of 2006 will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... Families Akysidae Amblycipitidae Amphiliidae Anchariidae Andinichthyidae â€  Ariidae Aspredinidae Astroblepidae Auchenipteridae Austroglanididae Bagridae Callichthyidae Cetopsidae Chacidae Clariidae Claroteidae Cranoglanididae Diplomystidae Doradidae Erethistidae Heptapteridae Hypsidoridae â€  Ictaluridae Lacantuniidae Loricariidae Malapteruridae Mochokidae Nematogenyiidae Pangasiidae Pimelodidae Plotosidae Pseudopimelodidae Schilbeidae Scoloplacidae Siluridae Sisoridae Trichomycteridae incertae sedis   Conorhynchos   Horabagrus   Phreatobius Catfish (order Siluriformes) are a very diverse... Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. ...

McCrery now serves as the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.

Subcommittees and laws

Congressman McCrery sits on the following House Ways and Means subcommittees: The Committee on Ways and Means is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...

• Health
• Human Resources
• Social Security (chairman)

McCrery has sponsored or cosponsored six public bills in the 109th Congress that have been signed into law by the president, all of which involved disaster mitigation and assistance in response to 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ... Lowest pressure 895 mbar (hPa)[1] Damages $10 billion (2005 USD)[1] Fatalities 7 direct, 113 indirect Areas affected Bahamas, Florida, Cuba, Yucatán Peninsula, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Rita is the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most... Lowest pressure 882 mbar (hPa; 26. ...

Family and personal life

On August 3, 1991, McCrery married the former Johnette Hawkins (born 1966), a former television newswoman. They have two children, Scott and Clark. McCrery is a Methodist. is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      For school of ancient Greek medicine...

Political Controversies

During the China-U.S trade talks of March 2007, McCrery and New York Democrat Charles Rangel committed a gaffe when they accidentally insulted the Chinese Vice Premier, Wu Yi by referring to her as the Vice Premier of the "Republic of China" in a letter. The Republic of China is a name for the self-ruling government on the island of Taiwan, which the PRC considers a rogue province. ^[2] Charles Bernard Rangel Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, American politician. ... Vice-premier Wu Yi Wú Yí (吴仪) (born 1938 in Wuhan, China) is one of four vice-premiers of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. ... For the Chinese civilization, see China. ... PRC is a common abbreviation for: Peoples Republic of China Palestinian Red Crescent Popular Resistance Committees This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

2008 Presidential Support

In 2007, during the Republican bid to get the GOP nod for president in 2008, McCrery announced endorsement of the Mitt Romney[1] presidential campaign.^[3] Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Notes

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External links

• U.S. Congressman Jim McCrery official House site
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Federal Election Commission — James Otis McCrery III campaign finance reports and data
• On the Issues — Jim McCrery issue positions and quotes
• OpenSecrets.org — Jim McCrery campaign contributions
• Project Vote Smart — Representative James O. 'Jim' McCrery III (LA) profile
• SourceWatch Congresspedia — Jim McCrery profile
• Washington Post — Jim McCrery voting record
• Election Central Guide to 2008