24 Facts About Paul Broun

Paul Broun is a member of the Republican Party and was a member of the Tea Party Caucus.

Paul Broun completed his medical internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and residency at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Paul Broun then practiced general medicine; starting in 2002 he maintained a practice based solely on house calls.

Paul Broun had been raised as a conservative Democrat like his father, but became a Republican sometime in the 1980s.

Paul Broun first ran for public office in 1990, challenging Democratic US Congressman Richard Ray, of Georgia's 3rd congressional district.

Paul Broun was one of six Republicans who ran for the Republican nomination in the race.

Paul Broun won a plurality of just four counties: Oconee, Jackson, Oglethorpe, and Morgan.

Paul Broun won the counties in the Northern part of the district, while Whitehead won the counties in the southern part.

Paul Broun was challenged by Republican state representative and House Majority Leader Barry Fleming, who had endorsed Whitehead in the 2007 election.

Paul Broun won re-election on November 6,2012, receiving 209,917 votes across the district.

Paul Broun was running mostly in territory that he did not know and that did not know him, though he represented the district's share of Athens for much of his first stint in Congress.

Paul Broun ran in a five-candidate Republican primary race with fellow Tea Party challengers Roger Fitzpatrick, Bernie Fontaine and Mike Scupin, against incumbent candidate Doug Collins, who held the 9th since 2012.

On July 25,2007, Paul Broun was sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In January 2013, at the beginning of the 113th Congress, Paul Broun was one of a handful of House Republicans to not vote to reelect John Boehner as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; Paul Broun instead voted for outspoken former US Representative Allen West of Florida, even though West lost his bid for re-election in November 2012 and was no longer a member of Congress.

In 2008,2009, and 2011, Paul Broun was the lead sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution to define marriage as "consisting only of the union of a man and a woman" and thus prohibit same-sex marriage in the United States.

Paul Broun sponsored the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment in various congresses.

Paul Broun voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and decries the high cost of the bill.

In 2008, Paul Broun signed Americans for Prosperity's "No Climate Tax" pledge, promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.

Paul Broun voted against the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.

Paul Broun strongly opposed the Affordable Care Act and supported efforts to repeal and defund the health care reform legislation.

Paul Broun supported the October 2013 US federal government shutdown, which was precipitated by a group of Republican members of Congress who sought to dismantle the ACA.

In 2013, Paul Broun introduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2013, a bill that would direct the GAO to conduct an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Banks.

Paul Broun denied that the ad or the reference to "looting hordes from Atlanta" had racial undertones or might concern African-Americans.

In February 2013, Paul Broun officially announced he would leave his house seat to run for the open senate seat vacated by Republican US Senator Saxby Chambliss.