1. William Enyart is a former attorney and Adjutant General of Illinois.
22 Facts About William Enyart
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William Enyart faced Republican Mike Bost in the general election.
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William Enyart was viewed as one of the most vulnerable freshman Democrats.
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William Enyart earned his Bachelor of Arts in journalism and political science in 1974 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and his Juris Doctor from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 1979.
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In 2000, William Enyart graduated from the United States Army War College with a Master of Science in Strategic Studies.
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In 2012, William Enyart was awarded an honorary degree from Lindenwood University in Belleville, Illinois.
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William Enyart served in the US Air Force before joining the Illinois Army National Guard in 1982 as a JAG officer.
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In 2012, William Enyart received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland from Bronislaw Komorowski, the president of Poland.
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On June 23,2012, William Enyart was selected as the Democratic nominee for the US House of Representatives Illinois's 12th congressional district after the original nominee, Brad Harriman, withdrew from the race for health reasons.
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The St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that while William Enyart did not currently receive a pension, his wife does collect on three taxpayer pension funds.
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William Enyart was a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline Program, which is designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents.
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William Enyart was swamped in most of the district outside his base in the St Louis suburbs; he only carried three of the district's 12 counties.
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William Enyart is against repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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William Enyart has stated his support for raising taxes on higher income individuals.
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William Enyart co-sponsored the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would have allowed for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the US government and technology and manufacturing companies for cybersecurity purposes.
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William Enyart co-sponsored the Preserving American Privacy Act, which would have required federal agencies that used drones domestically to minimize the collection of personally identifiable information.
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William Enyart voted against a proposed amendment by Justin Amash that would have defunded warrantless domestic surveillance operations by the National Security Agency.
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William Enyart introduced the Veterans Backlog Reduction Act, which would provide provisional benefits to veterans who have requested benefits from the VA and been left waiting for more than 125 days.
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In October 2013, William Enyart was the lone member of Congress to vote against a bill that would have restored chaplain services to military personnel in the wake of the government shutdown of 2013.
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William Enyart defended his vote, calling the measure "an absolutely phony, feel-good bill that had nothing to do with reality," further noting that the bill provided no way to pay the chaplains if they resumed their duties.
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William Enyart voted in favor of proposed amendments by Adam Smith that would have eliminated indefinite detention for any individual held in the United States and provided a framework to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by December 1,2014.
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William Enyart voted for the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, which temporarily suspended the United States debt ceiling and placed temporary restrictions on congressional salaries.