Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15, 1937) is the U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 for , serving since 1999. She is a member of the Republican Party

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

.

Early life, education and career

Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia (Mailler) Borg. Her father Alvin A. Borg worked for the Chicago-based Walgreen Co.

Walgreens

Walgreen Co. , doing business as Walgreens , is the largest drugstore chain in the United States of America. As of August 31st, the company operates 8,210 locations across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1901, and has since expanded...

, the largest drugstore chain in the United States, for 41 years from 1928 to 1969, and served as its president from 1963 to 1969, succeeding Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois to Charles Rudolph Walgreen, the founder of the Walgreen drug store, and Myrtle Norton Walgreen. Charles took over the company after the death of his father in 1939. He was the president of Walgreens from 1939 until 1963 and the Chairman...

 and succeeded by Charles R. Walgreen III.

She grew up in Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located north of Chicago's downtown district and has a population of 27,651. Wilmette is considered a bedroom community in the North Shore district...

, a North Shore

North Shore (Chicago)

The North Shore is a term that refers to the generally affluent suburbs north of Chicago, Illinois bordering the shore of Lake Michigan.- History :Europeans settled the area sparsely after an 1833 treaty with local Native Americans...

 Chicago suburb, and graduated from New Trier High School

New Trier High School

New Trier High School is a public four-year high school , with its major campus located in Winnetka, Illinois, USA, and a second campus in Northfield, Illinois, with freshman classes and district administration...

 in 1955, then went to Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where she received a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in international relations in 1959, then worked for a year in a women's apparel store. She then attended Northwestern University School of Law

Northwestern University School of Law

The Northwestern University School of Law is a private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. The law school was founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. The first law school established in Chicago, it became jointly controlled by Northwestern University in...

 where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review

Northwestern University Law Review

The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law. The Law Review's primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship. The Law Review publishes four issues each year...

 from 1961 to 1963, earned a J.D.

Juris Doctor

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 in 1963, then clerked for federal judge Luther Merritt Swygert

Luther Merritt Swygert

Luther Merritt Swygert was a United States federal judge.Born in Miami County, Ohio, Swygert received an LL.B. from Notre Dame Law School in 1927. He was in private practice in Indiana from 1928 to 1931. He was a Deputy prosecuting attorney of Lake County, Indiana from 1931 to 1933. He was an...

 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

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 from 1963 to 1964.

Biggert left her federal court law clerkship to have her children, but later did some legal work from her home for family and friends on wills, trusts and real estate. She served on numerous boards of voluntary and civic organizations.

Early political career

Biggert was elected to the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education in 1978 and was a board member until 1985, serving as president from 1983 to 1985. She served as chairman of the Hinsdale Plan Commission from 1989 to 1993.

Illinois House of Representatives

Biggert began her legislative career in 1992, when she was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives to serve the redrawn 81st District. She was re-elected in 1994 and 1996 before running for Congress in 1998.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

• Committee on Education and the Workforce
  United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce
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  • Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
    United States House Education Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
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  • Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training
• Committee on Financial Services
  United States House Committee on Financial Services
  The United States House Committee on Financial Services is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking, and housing industries...
  
  
  • Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
  • Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity (Chairwoman)
• Committee on Science, Space and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
  • Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation

Caucus memberships

• Co-Chair of the Caucus on Women's Issues
• Republican Main Street Partnership
  Republican Main Street Partnership
  The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group of moderate members of the United States Republican Party. They tend away from the dominant social conservatism of many Republicans and towards a moderate fiscal conservatism and limited government to a degree. The group is the rough equivalent of...
  
  

Interest group ratings

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | ACU

American Conservative Union

The American Conservative Union is an American political organization advocating conservative policies, and is the oldest such conservative lobbying organization in the country.-Organization:...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | ADA

Americans for Democratic Action

Americans for Democratic Action is an American political organization advocating progressive policies. ADA works for social and economic justice through lobbying, grassroots organizing, research and supporting progressive candidates.-History:...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | AFSCME

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is the second- or third-largest labor union in the United States and one of the fastest-growing, representing over 1.4 million employees, primarily in local and state government and in the health care industry. AFSCME is part of the...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | ChC
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | CfG

Club for Growth

The Club for Growth is a politically conservative 527 organization active in the United States of America, with an agenda focussed on taxation and other economic issues, and with an affiliated political action committee . The Club advocates lower taxes, limited government, less government spending,...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | Con

Concord Coalition

The Concord Coalition is a political advocacy group in the United States, formed in 1992. A bipartisan organization, it was founded by former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, former Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson, and the late U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. The Concord Coalition's advocacy...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | FRC

Family Research Council

The Family Research Council is a conservative or right-wing Christian group and lobbying organization formed in the United States in 1981 by James Dobson. It was fully incorporated in 1983...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | ITIC

Information Technology Industry Council

The Information Technology Industry Council is a Washington D.C. based trade association that represents companies from the information and communications technology industry. As an advocacy organization, ITI works to influence policy issues aimed at encouraging innovation and promoting global...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | LCV

League of Conservation Voters

The League of Conservation Voters is a political advocacy organization founded in 1969 by American environmentalist David Brower in the early years of the environmental movement. LCV's mission is to "advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | NTLC^*
! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | NTU

National Taxpayers Union

National Taxpayers Union is a taxpayers advocacy organization and taxpayers union in the United States, founded in 1969 by James Dale Davidson. NTU advertises that it is the largest and oldest grassroots taxpayer organization in the nation, with 362,000 members nationwide. It is closely...

! scope="col" style="background:#efefef;" | USCC

United States Chamber of Commerce

The United States Chamber of Commerce is an American lobbying group representing the interests of many businesses and trade associations. It is not an agency of the United States government....

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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2000
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2001
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2002
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| align="right" | 84
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2003
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2004
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| align="right" | 64
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2005
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! scope="row" style="background:#efefef;" align="left" | 2009
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^* NTLC - National Tax-Limitation Committee

Key votes

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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Kill proposal to take aviation trust funds off budget
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permit state and local governments to display the Ten Commandments on public property
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Require background checks on buyers only at gun shows with 10 or more vendors
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Remove barriers among banking, securities and insurance companies
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Ban "partial-birth" abortions
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Halt funding for U.S. mission in Kosovo unless European nations pay more
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Provide Medicare benefits to military retirees and their dependents
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Grant China permanent normal trade status
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Phase out estate, gift and trust taxes
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve GOP plan to provide prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Drop enforcement of the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Impose steel import quotas
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Bar funding for Food and Drug Administration review of the RU-486 drug for inducement of abortion
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Authorize state grants to hire teachers and reduce class size
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Overhaul campaign finance laws; ban "soft money" and restrict advocacy advertising
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Approve bipartisan plan to increase rights of patients in managed-care health plans
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Raise hourly minimum wage by $1 over two years
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Prohibit implementation of president's national monument designations
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Increase help for poor nations indebted to international financial institutions
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Nullify Clinton Labor Department ergonomics rule
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve Bush tax cuts of $1.35 trillion through fiscal 2011
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permit federal incentives for social services provided by religious organizations
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Bar funds for the District of Columbia to enforce anti-discrimination ruling against the Boy Scouts for expelling two gay Scouts
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve Bush proposal to limit managed-care plan liability for coverage decisions
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Divert money from crop subsidy payments to land conservation
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Expand law enforcement power to investigate suspected terrorists
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Back Bush's defense budget increase
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Extend 1996 welfare law
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Bar funds for the International Criminal Court
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Adopt Bush's discretionary spending limit
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Pass GOP Medicare prescription drug plan
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permit commercial airline pilots to carry firearms and use force during a flight
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Ban "partial-birth" abortion
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Revive fast-track procedures for trade agreements
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Authorize war against Iraq
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Advance bankruptcy overhaul opposed by abortion opponents
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Maintain ban on oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Overhaul campaign finance law; ban "soft money" and restrict advocacy advertising
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Create independent Sept. 11 commission
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Extend union protection to Homeland Security Department employees
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Restrict liability lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of firearms and ammunition
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permit oil drilling in 2000 acres (8.1 km²) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve Bush tax cuts of $330 billion through fiscal 2013
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Do not allow use of search warrants without first notifying suspects
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Ban "partial birth" abortion except to save a woman's life
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve fiscal 2004 supplemental appropriations bill providing $87 billion for U.S. military operations and reconstruction aid to Iraq and Afghanistan
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Overhaul Medicare and create prescription drug benefit
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Pass $293.2 billion, six-year federal highway and mass transit bill
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Prohibit funds to enforce the economic embargo of Cuba
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve $146 billion multi-year extension of previously enacted middle-class tax breaks
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Cut corporate taxes $137 billion over 10 years
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Reorganize U.S. intelligence agencies as proposed by Sept. 11 commission
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Ban human cloning and impose criminal sanctions
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Block Bush rule scaling back overtime pay for some white collar federal workers
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Allow importation of prescription drugs
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Create private school voucher program in Washington, D.C.
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Split $18.6 billion in Iraq aid into half-grant, half-loan
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Extend federal unemployment benefits by 13 weeks
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Bar funds to implement new federal regulations for overtime pay
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Amend the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Intervene in the life-support case of Terri Schiavo
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permanently repeal federal estate and gift taxes
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Lift President Bush's restrictions on stem cell research funding
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Reauthorize the USA PATRIOT Act, and make permanent most of its provisions for expanded law-enforcement authority to investigate potential terrorists
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with five Central American countries
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Pass energy policy overhaul favored by President Bush emphasizing domestic oil and gas production
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Ban torture of prisoners in American custody
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve fiscal 2006 budget reconciliation legislation to curb entitlement spending
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Authorize oil and gas leases for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Affirm U.S. commitment to war in Iraq and reject setting a withdrawal date for troops
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Permit U.S. sale of civilian nuclear technology to India
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Build a 700 miles (1,126.5 km) fence on the U.S.-Mexico border to curb illegal immigration
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Create military tribunals to try detainees described as unlawful enemy combatants
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Bar transportation of a minor girl across state lines to obtain an abortion without parental consent
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Prohibit FBI access to library and bookstore records
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | End mandatory preservation of habitat of endangered animal and plant species
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Stop broadband companies from favoring select Internet traffic
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Repeal requirement for bilingual ballots at the polls
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Amend the Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Increase minimum wage by $2.10 an hour to $7.25 per hour in two years from $5.15 per hour
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Affirm U.S. commitment to war in Iraq and reject setting a withdrawal date for troops
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Bar funds to state or local governments that refuse to share information on immigrant status with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Override Bush veto of $23.2 billion water projects authorization bill
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Prohibit job discrimination on the basis of a person's sexual orientation
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Implement Peru free-trade agreement
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve energy policy overhaul with new fuel economy standards
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Clear $473.5 billion omnibus spending bill, including $70 billion for military operations
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Overhaul surveillance laws and permit dismissal of suits against companies that conducted warrantless wiretapping
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Grant mortgage relief to homeowners and funding for Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Repeal the District of Columbia's local laws that prohibit possession of firearms
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Approve final $700 billion program to stabilize financial markets
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Approve $124.2 billion in emergency war spending and set goal for redeployment of troops from Iraq
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Bar the use of military funds for contingency operations in Iran
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Reject federal contraceptive assistance to international family planning groups
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Delay consideration of Colombia free-trade agreement
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Override Bush veto of federal farm and nutrition programs reauthorization bill
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Approve initial $700 billion program to stabilize financial markets
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Provide $14 billion in loans to automakers
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Authorize

Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is a United States federal law that gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate the tobacco industry...

 the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Rule for floor debate on the fiscal 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill that restricted the number of amendments to the bill that could be offered
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Comprehensive food safety bill

Food Safety Enhancement Act

The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman John Dingell which would grant the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new authorities to regulate and oversee the growing and production of food...

, after a string of food-borne illnesses shook the public's confidence and left key industry players searching for ways to reassure consumers
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Cash for clunkers

Car Allowance Rebate System

The Car Allowance Rebate System , colloquially known as "Cash for Clunkers", was a $3 billion U.S. federal scrappage program intended to provide economic incentives to U.S. residents to purchase a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle when trading in a less fuel-efficient vehicle...

 - replenish a federal fund that offered as much as $4,500 to car owners who traded in fuel-inefficient vehicles for newer, more fuel efficient vehicles
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Stupak amendment

Stupak–Pitts Amendment

The Stupak–Pitts Amendment was a proposed amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2010 . It was submitted by Representatives Bart Stupak and Joseph R. Pitts...

 to health reform legislation to restrict insurance coverage for abortions
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | State Children's Health Insurance Program

State Children's Health Insurance Program

The State Children's Health Insurance Program – later known more simply as the Children's Health Insurance Program – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children...

 (SCHIP) expansion
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Economic stimulus

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA and commonly referred to as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act, is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama.To...

 - $787 billion bill to help stimulate the economy through a combination of spending and tax cuts
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Mortgage loan modification

Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009

The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 is a recently enacted public law in the United States. On May 20, 2009, the Senate bill was signed into law by President Barack Obama...

 - allow bankruptcy judges to write down

Cram down

A cram down or cramdown is the involuntary imposition by a court of a reorganization plan over the objection of some classes of creditors.-Home mortgage loans:...

 the principal and interest rates of existing loans to a home's current market value
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Climate change mitigation

American Clean Energy and Security Act

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme...

 - create a cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases; require electric utilities to produce some of their power from renewable sources
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Student loan overhaul

Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman George Miller that would expand federal Pell Grants to a maximum of $5,500 in 2010 and tie increases in Pell Grant maximum values to...

 - establish the government as the sole provider of student loans and provide billions of dollars in savings toward various scholarship and education programs
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Health care reform legislation

Affordable Health Care for America Act

The Affordable Health Care for America Act was a bill that was crafted by the United States House of Representatives in November 2009. At the encouragement of the Obama administration, the 111th Congress devoted much of its time to enacting reform of the United States' health care system...

 aimed at insuring most Americans and paid for with a controversial combination of reductions in Medicare spending and tax increases
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Continuing Extension Act of 2010 - $18 billion unemployment benefits extension to June 2, 2010
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| align="left" | Yes || align="left" | Allow repeal of " Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Don't ask, don't tell

"Don't ask, don't tell" was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011. The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while...

" policy 60 days after receipt of Pentagon recommendations due December 1, 2010
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress...

 / Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is a law that was enacted by the 111th United States Congress, by means of the reconciliation process, in order to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 is an American law that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in July 2010. It extends the filing period for unemployment benefits for Americans affected to the serious economic recession of 2007 until November 2010....

 - $34 billion unemployment benefits extension to November 30, 2010
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Aid to states - $26 billion to fund education jobs and Medicaid
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| align="left" | No || align="left" | Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 - $42 billion to provide capital to small banks and tax cuts for small businesses
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Political positions

• Biggert is a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership
  Republican Main Street Partnership
  The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group of moderate members of the United States Republican Party. They tend away from the dominant social conservatism of many Republicans and towards a moderate fiscal conservatism and limited government to a degree. The group is the rough equivalent of...
  
   and Republicans for Choice
  Republicans for Choice
  Republicans for Choice, an organization based in the Washington, D.C. area is a political action committee composed of members of the United States Republican Party who support legalized abortion.-History of Republicans for Choice:Republicans for Choice was founded in 1989 by Ann Stone...
  
  .
• Biggert is one of 171 of the 178 Republican U.S. House members in the 111th Congress to have signed Grover Norquist
  Grover Norquist
  Grover Glenn Norquist is an American lobbyist, conservative activist, and founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform...
  
  's Americans for Tax Reform
  Americans for Tax Reform
  Americans for Tax Reform is an advocacy group and taxpayer group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax...
  
   Taxpayer Protection Pledge:

  "I Judy Biggert pledge to the taxpayers of the 13th Congressional District, of the state of Illinois, and to all the people of this state, that I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes."

• Biggert supports making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, regardless of income, because everyone has suffered during the recession.
• Biggert supports the partial privatization of Social Security
  Social Security (United States)
  In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...
  
  , in which individuals could choose to voluntarily divert 2% of their Social Security tax payments from paying Social Security beneficiaries into individual private accounts which they could invest in the stock market and which they could pass on to their heirs.
• Biggert supports the repeal (or defunding to prevent implementation) of the 2010 Democratic health care reform and its replacement with Republican health care reform.
• Biggert opposes allowing individuals less than 65 years of age to buy into Medicare
  Medicare (United States)
  Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over; to those who are under 65 and are permanently physically disabled or who have a congenital physical disability; or to those who meet other...
  
  .
• Biggert opposes any comprehensive immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and supports the message sent by Arizona SB 1070.
• Biggert opposes public financing of federal election campaigns, and supports the elimination of all limits on campaign contributions with immediate and full disclosure of contributions.
• Biggert supports repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  Don't ask, don't tell
  "Don't ask, don't tell" was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011. The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while...
  
  " policy, but opposes repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act
  Defense of Marriage Act
  The Defense of Marriage Act is a United States federal law whereby the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. Under the law, no U.S. state may be required to recognize as a marriage a same-sex relationship considered a marriage in another state...
  
   which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

1998

In 1998, Biggert narrowly defeated conservative state Senator Peter Roskam

Peter Roskam

Peter James Roskam is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party and Chief Deputy Whip in the 112th Congress, ranking fourth among house Republican leaders; also served in the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives.-Early life,...

 in the Republican primary, the real contest in this ancestrally Republican district. Biggert earned 61% of the vote to win the seat opened up by the retirement of U. S. Representative Harris Fawell. In 2006, Roskam was elected to Congress from another district.

2006

In 2006, Biggert's share of the vote in the general election fell below 60% for the first time in her Congressional career.

2008

In 2008, Biggert received less than 54% of the vote overall (and less than 50% of the vote in Will County

Will County, Illinois

As of the census of 2000, there were 502,266 people, 167,542 households, and 131,017 families residing in the county. The population density was 600 people per square mile . There were 175,524 housing units at an average density of 210 per square mile...

) in winning reelection to her sixth term in Congress in her first general election campaign against a financially competitive opponent, businessman Scott Harper. In 2008, Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was reelected with 60% of the vote and Democrat Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 won 54% of the vote in the 13th Congressional District, with even Biggert's Republican predecessor, Fawell, supporting Obama.

2012

The Democratic-controlled state legislature significantly altered Illinois' congressional map, and Biggert was one of the prime targets. Her district was renumbered as the 11th District, and made significantly more Democratic even though it contains 50 percent of Biggert's former territory. At the same time, Biggert's home in Hinsdale

Hinsdale, Illinois

Hinsdale is a suburb of Chicago, Illinois; it is located partly in Cook County and mainly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 17,349 at the 2000 census. The town's ZIP code is 60521. The town has a rolling, wooded topography, with a quaint downtown and is a 30-minute...

 was drawn into the heavily Democratic North Side-based 5th District. Biggert opted to run in the new 11th, though she is believed to be an underdog against the expected Democratic candidate, former 14th District Congressman Bill Foster.

Illinois House, 81st Representative District (1992–1996)

• 1992 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 5,284  (37.52%)
  • James P. McCarthy - 3,498  (24.83%)
  • Todd Vandermyde - 1,861  (13.21%)
  • Andrew J. (Andy) Clark - 1,758  (12.48%)
  • John Curry - 1,684  (11.96%)
• 1992 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 28,655  (68.93%)
  • David M. Briggs (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 12,918  (31.07%)
• 1994 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 6,100  (53.89%)
  • James P. McCarthy - 5,219  (46.11%)
• 1994 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 22,227  (78.51%)
  • Bill Chalberg (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 6,085  (21.49%)
• 1996 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 14,142  (100.00%)
• 1996 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 28,597  (71.19%)
  • Dave Brockway (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 11,573  (28.81%)

U.S. House, Illinois 13th Congressional District (1998– )

• 1998 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 24,482  (45.03%)
  • Peter Roskam
    Peter Roskam
    Peter James Roskam is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party and Chief Deputy Whip in the 112th Congress, ranking fourth among house Republican leaders; also served in the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives.-Early life,...
    
     - 21,784  (40.07%)
  • David J. Shestokas - 2,574  (4.73%)
  • Michael J. Krzyston - 2,566  (4.72%)
  • Andrew J. Clark - 1,926  (3.54%)
  • Walter Marksym - 1,035  (1.90%)
• 1998 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 121,889  (61.02%)  $1,294,853^*
  • Susan W. Hynes (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 77,878  (38.98%)  $222,656^*
• 2000 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 39,121  (100.00%)
• 2000 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 193,250  (66.18%)  $381,623^*
  • Thomas Mason (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 98,768  (33.82%)
• 2002 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 70,691  (100.00%)
• 2002 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 139,456  (70.25%)  $464,054^*
  • Tom Mason (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 59,069  (29.75%)
• 2004 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 46,861  (99.51%)
  • Bob Hart (write-in) - 231  (0.49%)
• 2004 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 200,472  (65.02%)             $542,733^*
  • Gloria Schor Andersen (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 107,836  (34.98%)  $42,129^*
  • Mark Alan Mastrogiovanni (write-in) - 4  (0.00%)
• 2006 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 52,900  (79.59%)
  • Bob Hart - 13,564  (20.41%)
• 2006 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 119,720  (58.33%)  $1,014,819^*
  • Joseph Shannon (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 85,507  (41.66%)   $225,842^*
  • Mark Alan Mastrogiovanni (write-in) - 7  (0.00%)
• 2008 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 58,533  (77.28%)
  • Sean O'Kane - 17,206  (22.72%)
• 2008 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) - 180,888  (53.55%)  $1,585,536^*
  • Scott Harper (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) - 147,430  (43.65%)    $1,070,201^*
  • Steve Alesch (Green
    Illinois Green Party
    The Illinois Green Party is a statewide political party in Illinois.The party is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States. Its stated mission and purpose are to advance the Ten Key Values of the Green Party in Illinois through political means and to support individual members and the...
    
    ) - 9,402  (2.78%)
  • Theodore Knapp (write-in) - 51  (0.02%)
• 2010 Republican primary
  • Judy Biggert - 58,294  (100.00%)
• 2010 general election
  • Judy Biggert (R
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    ) -       $1,450,000^**
  • Scott Harper (D
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    ) -            $621,000^**

^*  campaign expenditures

^** campaign contributions (through September 30, 2010)

Personal life

On September 21, 1963, she married Rody Patterson Biggert, Jr., who was born in Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city is in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area and is 25 miles from downtown Chicago. The population is 80,294 at the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. It borders Lake Michigan and is known...

, grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois

Hinsdale, Illinois

Hinsdale is a suburb of Chicago, Illinois; it is located partly in Cook County and mainly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 17,349 at the 2000 census. The town's ZIP code is 60521. The town has a rolling, wooded topography, with a quaint downtown and is a 30-minute...

, graduated from Cranbrook School

Cranbrook Schools

Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities...

 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan, northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869...

 in 1954, Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 in 1958, and Northwestern University School of Law in 1963, then went on to become a partner at Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson

Seyfarth Shaw

Seyfarth Shaw LLP is an American law firm. It has offices in the United States, including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, and an office in London, England.- Labor & Employment :...

, a large Chicago-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law—that former Illinois 13th District U.S. Rep. John Erlenborn

John N. Erlenborn

John Neal Erlenborn was a lawyer and a former Republican member of the U.S. Congressional Delegations from Illinois, representing the 14th district. He was a graduate of Loyola University Chicago and Loyola University Chicago School of Law...

 joined in 1985 after ten terms in Congress.

Rody and Judy Biggert lived in Chicago, then Wilmette, before moving to Hinsdale in 1971, when Rody's mother sold them her home, the extensively remodeled 1864 mansion of Hinsdale's founder, William Robbins, in the Robbins Park Historic District

Robbins Park Historic District

The Robbins Park Historic District is a set of three hundred and sixty-eight buildings in Hinsdale, Illinois. Two hundred and thirty-two of these builds contribute to its historical value. The district was platted by William Robbins in the 1860s and 1870s following the completion of the Chicago,...

. The Biggerts have four children: Courtney Caverly, Alison Cabot, Rody Biggert, and Adrienne Morrell,

and nine grandchildren.

Since 2004, Biggert's youngest daughter Adrienne Morrell has been a registered lobbyist for Health Net

Health Net

Health Net, Inc. is among the United States of America's largest publicly traded health insurers. The company’s HMO, POS, insured PPO and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to approximately 6.6 million individuals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia through group,...

, the sixth largest publicly-traded for-profit managed healthcare company; previously Morrell was a lobbyist with America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the chief health insurance industry lobby, after having served as an aide to former seven-term Illinois 13th District U.S. Rep. Harris Fawell

Harris W. Fawell

Harris W. Fawell was a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from 1963 to 1977, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968 and 1988. In 1976 Harris W. Fawell ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1984 he was elected to the U.S...

, Biggert's predecessor in Congress.

In 2008, multimillionaire Biggert was the second wealthiest—after U.S. Rep. Bill Foster

Bill Foster (Illinois politician)

George William "Bill" Foster is a physicist and businessman, and the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2008 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life and education:...

 (D

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

-14)—in Illinois' 21-member Congressional delegation, and the 82nd wealthiest member in the U.S. House.

Biggert was president of the Junior Board of the Chicago Travelers Aid Society in 1969, and president of the Junior League

Junior League

The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. is a non-profit organization of 292 Junior Leagues in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States. Junior Leagues are educational and charitable women's organizations aimed at improving their communities through volunteerism and...

 of Chicago from 1976 to 1978, chairman of board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago in 1978, and president of the Oak School elementary school PTA

Parent-Teacher Association

In the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...

 in Hinsdale from 1976 to 1978. She was a member of the board of directors of the Salt Creek Ballet from 1990 to 1998. She was also a Sunday school teacher at Grace Episcopal Church in Hinsdale from 1974 to 1984, and an American Youth Soccer Organization

American Youth Soccer Organization

The American Youth Soccer Organization is a non-profit soccer organization in the United States for children aged 4 through 19. Headquartered in Torrance, California, AYSO has local programs known as "regions" in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago...

 assistant soccer coach in 1983.

External links

• U.S. Congresswoman Judy Biggert official U.S. House site
• Re-Elect Judy Biggert official campaign site
• Profile at SourceWatch
  SourceWatch
  SourceWatch is an internet wiki site that is a collaborative project of the liberal Center for Media and Democracy...