Michele+Bachmann


 * __Michele Bachmann__**
 * IMPORTANT NEWS: Following a poor outcome in the Iowa primary, Michele Bachmann announced January 4, 2012 that she will suspend her presidential campaign.***

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**__BIOGRAPHY__**

Michele Amble was born in Iowa on April 6, 1956. She moved to Minnesota when she was thirteen, the state she would grow up to be a representative for. She graduated from Winona State University and received a juris doctorate at O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University and a degree in Tax Law at the College of William and Mary. In1978, she married Marcus Bachmann, inheriting the surname by which she is known today. They live together in Stillwater with their five children and twenty-three foster children. In 2000, she was elected as a Minnesota state representative, the first woman to hold the position. She is a republican candidate and also supports the Tea Party movement, having assisted in the founding of the Tea Party caucus. She is currently 55 years old.

**__VOTING RECORD__**



Bachmann has missed 9% of all voting calls since January 4, 2007. (389 missed out of 4345)

__**GOVERNMENT REGULATION**__

"I will repeal massive government over-regulation beginning with the EPA which is killing literally thousands of jobs in the United States." -Bachmann, 2011

Bachmann, as a supporter of the Tea Party movement, vehemently opposes large government, and aims to shrink the size of our current national government and cut taxes massively. She has criticized Obama's healthcare plan and pushes for a return to what she considers to be a return to the Constitution.

"When all is said and done, we cannot be about big government as usual. Then America will lose."-Bachmann, 2011

__**ECONOMIC ISSUES**__ Bachmann proposes setting the tax rate to 0% until December 31, and keeping it at 5% from that point forward. She claims that if this were executed, "More than 1.2 trillion United States dollars could be brought back to America in days." Bachmann also supports decreasing the number of government officials, cutting their salaries, and cutting the spending of the national government. She demands the repeal of the EPA, Dodd-Frank and Obamacare, accusing them of being too restrictive on business and destroying jobs. Bachmann calls for greater enforcement of immigration laws, saying that it puts an "unfair strain on our country's job markets." Proposes "environmentally safe" drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.

__**SOCIAL ISSUES**__

Bachmann is unwaveringly pro-life, and opposes stem-cell research. She also opposes federal funding of clinics such as Planned Parenthood.

Bachmann supports Don't Ask Don't Tell.

"Voted no on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation."

"I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law." -Bachmann, 2011

"Voted no on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes." Bachmann strongly supports the right provided in the second amendment and opposes gun control.

__**OTHER QUOTES**__ (On her degree in tax law) "Tax law? I hate taxes, why should I go into something like that? But the lord says, be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'"

“Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.”

“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

“Executive experience in government is one thing, but not when it comes to a promise of more of the same big government as usual.”

"This election will be about quite simply, who can lead that restructuring effort.”

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