36 Facts About Randy Hultgren

Randall Mark Hultgren is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2011 to 2019.

Randy Hultgren represented the 48th district Senate seat in the Illinois General Assembly from 2007 to 2011.

Randy Hultgren attended Wheaton Academy in West Chicago, Illinois, graduating in 1984.

Randy Hultgren next moved to Washington, DC to work as an aide to Republican US Representative Dennis Hastert from 1988 to 1990, where he rose from intern to office manager.

Randy Hultgren then returned to his hometown where in 1990, he purchased a small house and was elected Republican precinct committeeman for Milton Township Precinct 20 in Wheaton, and began attending the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago.

Randy Hultgren received a great deal of support from those who had backed Peter Roskam of Wheaton in Roskam's first campaign for Illinois House District 40 two years earlier.

Randy Hultgren served one 4-year term as one of the then all-Republican 24-member DuPage County Board from December 1994 to December 1998.

Randy Hultgren won reelection to a second term unopposed in 2000.

Randy Hultgren was on the Death Penalty Committee and the Education Committee.

On September 28,2009, Randy Hultgren announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in and won the party's nomination in the February 2 primary election.

Randy Hultgren ran for a third term and was opposed by Dennis Anderson for a second time.

Randy Hultgren served on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe from 2015 to 2019.

Randy Hultgren was a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Climate Solutions Caucus.

Randy Hultgren has been described as a member of the Tea Party movement.

In 2010, Randy Hultgren signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, promising to vote against any climate-change legislation that would raise taxes.

Randy Hultgren is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Randy Hultgren supported a bill that would allow employers to exclude veterans receiving health insurance from the United States Department of Defense or the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs from their list of employees.

Randy Hultgren endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

In 2013, Randy Hultgren voted for legislation stop an increase of the debt limit, which led to a government shutdown.

Randy Hultgren was the only congressperson from Illinois to vote against an agreement to reopen government and end the government shutdown.

Randy Hultgren sponsored legislation to repeal the estate tax and voted to repeal it several times.

Randy Hultgren supported a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.

Randy Hultgren called Dodd-Frank "flawed" and introduced Republican-backed legislation to end it.

Randy Hultgren was a strong advocate of municipal finance and tax-exempt municipal bonds.

In September 2017, Randy Hultgren hosted a screening of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's film Human Flow, about the refugee crisis in 23 countries.

On February 14,2018, Randy Hultgren delivered a statement on the House floor wishing a happy birthday to Zhu Yufu, a prisoner of conscience in China, and calling on Chinese authorities to release him from detention.

The next day the Lantos Commission, which Randy Hultgren co-chaired, hosted a hearing on prisoners of conscience.

Randy Hultgren welcomed the indictment in February 2018 of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities.

Randy Hultgren favored a prohibition on embryonic stem cell research.

Randy Hultgren sponsored legislation to allocate $110 million per year in federal grants for abstinence education in schools.

Randy Hultgren voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act.

In 2015, Randy Hultgren cosponsored a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

In October 2012, Randy Hultgren was a recipient of the Champion of Science Award by the Science Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group composed of the 50 leading research universities in the United States.

Randy Hultgren voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.

In 2002, Randy Hultgren moved 4 miles southwest from Wheaton to adjacent Winfield, Illinois.

Randy Hultgren is an evangelical Christian and a member of Wheaton Bible Church.