William Joseph Posey was born on December 18,1947 and is an American businessman and politician serving as the US representative for, in Congress since 2009.
16 Facts About Bill Posey
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Bill Posey's mother's family immigrated from Russia and is of Jewish heritage and his father is a Protestant of primarily English ancestry.
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Bill Posey moved to Florida in 1956 when his father took a job in engineering with McDonnell Douglas, working on the Delta rocket.
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Bill Posey got a job with McDonnell Douglas, and did Apollo Space Program work at Kennedy Space Center until he was laid off.
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Bill Posey founded a real estate company during the 1970s, and later became director of the state Association of Realtors.
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Bill Posey worked to revise insurance policy so as to aid hurricane victims.
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Bill Posey ran to replace retiring US Representative Dave Weldon, who had held the 15th District seat since 1995, when the district first voted Republican.
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Bill Posey's initiative was strongly criticized by Florida Democrats, who accused him of trying to "fan the rumors on the extreme fringe of the Republican Party" and "pandering to the right wing".
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Bill Posey said that there was now "no reason to question" that Obama is a US citizen.
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In 2016, Bill Posey sponsored legislation to reauthorize and reprioritize funding to clean up America's estuaries signed into law by President Obama.
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At a May 2018 hearing in the Science, Space and Technology Committee, Bill Posey promoted the claim that climate scientists in the 1970s believed the Earth was cooling; expressed skepticism that humans contribute to climate change, asking whether climate change was occurring because carbon dioxide captured in permafrost was now leaking out; and asked whether warming would be beneficial for habitats and to people.
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In June 2021, Bill Posey was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.
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Bill Posey was among 19 House Republicans to vote against the final passage of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
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In February 2022, Bill Posey co-sponsored the Secure America's Borders First Act, which would prohibit the expenditure or obligation of military and security assistance to Kyiv over the US border with Mexico.
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From 2015 to 2016, Bill Posey accepted $2,000 in direct campaign contributions from the NRA's Political Victory Fund; from 2008 to 2016 he accepted $13,500 from NRA political action committees.
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Bill Posey was one of the original cosponsors of the Repeal of the Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, which repealed Obama-era legislation aimed at preventing the mentally infirm from legally purchasing firearms.