Connie Mack IV
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| Assumed office January 3, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Porter Goss |
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| Born | August 12, 1967 Fort Myers, Florida |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Bono Mack |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy (born August 12, 1967, in Fort Myers, Florida), known as Connie Mack IV, is a Republican from Florida, elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, representing Florida's 14th congressional district (map). He succeeded Porter Goss, who resigned to take the helm of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mack, who served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003 representing the 91st district in Fort Lauderdale moved to Fort Myers and assumed the role his father, Connie Mack III, once filled, representing much of the same solidly conservative parts of Florida's west coast. Mack's father was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989 and of the United States Senate from 1989 to 2001.
A staunch economic conservative, Mack is a vocal supporter of less federal spending and lower taxes. He is an original co-sponsor of a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget. In 2007 Mack, introduced legislation to help encourage people to save and invest over the course of their lifetimes. Specifically, the Kids Invest and Develop Savings Act (KIDS ACT) would allow parents to open a Roth IRA for children of any age and would also allow parents, grandparents, and others to make contributions to that Roth IRA.
Mack serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee. In particular, Mack is an outspoken critic of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [1] Mack has been widely applauded for fighting for issues important to his congressional district in Southwest Florida.[citation needed] As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Mack helped secure over $81 million to expand Interstate 75 in Southwest Florida, a project vital to the economic well-being, quality of life, and public safety needs of the region. He has also championed a variety of critical environmental issues, including fighting for continued Everglades restoration projects, more peer-reviewed scientific research of Red Tide, and other initiatives to protect the sensitive shorelines of his coastal congressional district..[citation needed]
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[edit] Personal life
Mack is a great-grandson of Connie Mack, the manager and owner of baseball's Philadelphia Athletics, and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is also a great-grandson of Morris Sheppard, U.S. Senator and Representative from Texas, and a step-great-grandson of Tom Connally, who was the Texas Junior Senator to Sheppard for 12 years (Sheppard's widow married Connally the year after Sheppard died [1]). Mack's great-great-grandfather was John Levi Sheppard who was also a U.S. Representative from Texas. Mack divorced his first wife after being elected to Congress and establishing a relationship with Mary Bono Mack, a member of the U.S. Representatives from California. Mack and Bono were married on December 15, 2007, in Asheville, North Carolina[2].
He has two children, Addison and Connie V.
[edit] Education
Mack graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in 1993.
[edit] Committee Assignments
- Budget Committee
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
- Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
- Subcommittee on Aviation
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
[edit] External links
- Congressman Connie Mack official U.S. House site
- Connie Mack for Congress official campaign site
- 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
- Follow the Money — Connie Mack
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| Preceded by Porter Goss |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 14th congressional district 2005–Present |
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