MAIN STREET MEMBERS IN ACTION
Lawmakers serve the public interest
when they show independent-mindedness
Sen. Ben Sasse and Rep. Don Bacon deserve credit for their recent displays of independent-mindedness. They have stood up, in the face of partisan criticism, for responsible behavior in Washington. Their actions are in line with a Nebraska tradition of similar independent judgment by Bob Kerrey and Chuck Hagel when they
served in the Senate.
REP. mike
gallagher
(WI-08)
Rep. Mike Gallagher has just started his third terms representing Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. A 7th generation Wisconsin native, born and raised in Green Bay, Mike joined the Marine Corps the day he graduated from college and served for seven years on active duty as a Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Officer and Regional Affairs Officer for the Middle East/North Africa. He deployed twice to Iraq as a commander of intelligence teams, served on General Petraeus’s Central Command Assessment Team in the Middle East, and worked for three years in the intelligence community. Mike also served as the lead Republican staffer for Middle East, North Africa, and Counterterrorism on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After earning his bachelor’s degree from Princeton, Mike earned a master’s degree in Security Studies from Georgetown, a second in Strategic Intelligence from National Intelligence University, and his PhD in International Relations from Georgetown.