1. Michael Robert McNulty was born on September 16,1947 and is a retired American politician from the US state of New York.
17 Facts About Michael McNulty
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Michael McNulty served in the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 2009 representing New York's Capital District and was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Social Security in the 110th Congress.
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Michael McNulty attended the La Salle Institute and graduated from St Joseph's Institute in 1965.
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Michael McNulty attended Loyola University Rome Center in Rome, Italy from 1967 to 1968.
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In 1969, Michael McNulty graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Michael McNulty is a member of the third generation of Catholic, Irish-American family long prominent in Capital District politics.
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Michael McNulty worked as an insurance broker before entering politics.
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Michael McNulty was first elected to public office in November 1969 as Green Island's town supervisor; at 22, he was the youngest town supervisor in the state.
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Michael McNulty was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1983 to 1988, sitting in the 185th, 186th and 187th New York State Legislatures.
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Michael McNulty was elected handily in what was then one of the few reliably Democratic areas in Upstate New York.
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Michael McNulty was reelected nine more times without serious difficulty.
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Michael McNulty had a primary challenge in 1996 by Lee H Wasserman, in which he won by a closer margin than he ever had in the general election.
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In October 2007, Michael McNulty announced that he wouldn't seek an 11th term in Congress.
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Michael McNulty voted for the War in Iraq, but since changed his stance and cosponsored Representative John Murtha's resolution for a phased withdrawal from the region.
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Michael McNulty presided over a vote to recommit an agricultural appropriations bill on the night of August 2,2007 that would have prevented illegal immigrants from receiving food stamps.
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Michael McNulty was consistently endorsed by both the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party, third parties in New York.
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Michael McNulty received an "A" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Scorecard on middle-class issues.