Gebruiker:Haaftjlv/Alan Simpson

Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform In office February 18, 2010 – December 1, 2010 Serving with Erskine Bowles Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Position abolished Senate Minority Whip In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995 Leader Bob Dole Preceded by Alan Cranston Succeeded by Wendell Ford Senate Majority Whip In office January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987 Leader Bob Dole Preceded by Ted Stevens Succeeded by Alan Cranston United States Senator from Wyoming In office January 1, 1979 – January 3, 1997 Preceded by Clifford Hansen Succeeded by Mike Enzi Member of the Wyoming House of Representatives In office 1965 - 1977 Personal details Born Alan Kooi Simpson September 2, 1931 (age 87) Denver, Colorado, U.S. Nationality American Political party Republican Spouse(s) Ann Schroll Children 3, including Colin Relatives Milward Simpson (Father) Pete Simpson (Brother) Education University of Wyoming (BA, JD) Military service Allegiance United States Service/branch United States Army Years of service 1954–1956 Rank Second Lieutenant Unit 5th Infantry 2nd Armored Division

Alan Kooi Simpson, Denver (Colorado), V.S., 2 september 1931 is een Amekikaanse politicus. Hij is lid van de Republikeinse Partij, die Wyoming (staat) vertegenwoordigde van 1979 tot 1997. Ook fungeerde hij als mede-voorzitter van de Commissie voor Fiscale verantwoordelijkheid en Hervorming met de Democratische mede-voorzitter Erskine Bowles, senator voor North Carolina.Simpson

Simpson studeerde af aan University of Wyoming's law school in 1958 . Hij diende van 1965 tot 1977 in het Huis van Agevaardigden van Wyoming en werd in 1978 verkozen tot Senator voor deze staat in Washington D.C. . Zijn vader Milward Simpson diende in dezelfde functie van 1962–67. Simpson functioneerde als Republikeinse "Whip" in de Senaat van 1985 tot 1995. Na drie termijnen zitting in de Senaat zag hij ervan af om zich opnieuw verkiesbaar te stellen in 1996.

Since leaving office, Simpson has practiced law and taught at different universities. He also served on the Continuity of Government Commission, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the Iraq Study Group. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed him to co-chair the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which made several recommendations on ways to reduce the national debt. He has been a vocal proponent of amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and allow Congress to set reasonable limits on campaign spending in U.S. Elections.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Wyoming House of Representatives 3 US Senate 4 After Congress 4.1 The Iraq Study Group 4.2 The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform 4.3 Campaign Finance Reform 4.4 Issue Advocacy 4.5 Civic Participation 4.6 Praise and Criticism 5 In popular culture 6 Works 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links

Afkomst en opleiding

Simpson werd geboren in Denver (Colorado), zoon van wijlen Lorna Kooi en Milward Lee Simpson. Zijn middelste voornaam "Kooi", stamt van zijn moeder en zijn grootvader van haar kant, wier ouders Nederlandse immigranten waren. In zijn jeugd was Simpson een padvinder en bezocht hij Japanse-Amerikaa nse padvinders, die met hun families waren geinterneerd nabij Ralston (Wyoming), tijdens WO II. Daar ontwikkelde hij vriendschap met Norm Mineta, die later Democratisch Congreslid voor Californië (staat), en minister van Transport in het kabinet-G.W. Bush. Mineta en Simpson dienden samen in het Congres en ook in het Bestuur van het Smithsonian Instituut en blijven dikke vrienden.

Alan Simpson graduated from Cody High School in Cody, Wyoming, in 1949, and attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1950 for a postgraduate year. He graduated in 1954 from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1958 with a Juris Doctor degree. Like his brother, he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at the University of Wyoming.

In 1954, he married the former Susan Ann Schroll, who was a fellow UW student from Greybull, Wyoming. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955 to 1956, with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division, and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion, Second Armored Division.

Simpson had several run-ins with the law during his youth. An amicus brief filed before the United States Supreme Court in the juvenile imprisonment cases Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida,[3] states:

In Simpson’s words to this Court, “I was a monster.”

In that brief, in support of the claimant in the Supreme Court case, Simpson admitted that, as a juvenile, he had been on federal probation for shooting mailboxes and punching a cop and that he "was a monster".[4]

One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends “went out to do damage.” They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to “torch” it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a person’s death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze.

Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured, or caught by their parents.

Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. “We just raised hell,” Simpson says. Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds – funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.

As he [Simpson] has described it, “The older you get, the more you realize . . . your own attitude is stupefying, and arrogant, and cocky, and a miserable way to live.” [5]

Simpson stated "I was just dumb and rebellious and stupid. And a different person." and then added, "You're not who are when you're 16 or 18. You're dumb, and you don't care and you think you are eternal."

Wyoming House of Representatives Simpson served from 1965 to 1977 in the Wyoming House of Representatives from Park County. He was followed in the chamber four years by his brother. [6]

US Senate Simpson was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 7, 1978, but was appointed to the post early on January 1, 1979, following the resignation of Clifford P. Hansen. From 1985 to 1995, Simpson was the Republican whip, Assistant Republican Leader in the Senate, having served with then Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He was chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 1997 when Republicans regained control of the Senate. He also chaired the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittee of Judiciary; the Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee; the Social Security Subcommittee and the Committee on Aging. He was a moderate conservative. He supported abortion rights and voted against ban of late term abortion which did not include the exception of physical health(includes only life-threatening exception)in 1995 and 1996. However he opposed federal funding for abortions and supported Hyde-Amendment. He was also the co-sponsor of immigration bill regulating more immigration.

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