ELLISON, KEITH MAURICE

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: Experience: House: District 5, 2007-Present; Home State: Minnesota; Running: President, United States, 2016; Total Raised: $1,768,856Coverage End: Thursday, June 30, 2016; Winning: Won with 0.00%; Write a Review

Personal

Full Name: Keith Maurice Ellison

Gender: Male

Family: Divorced; 4 Children: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elijah, Amirah

Birth Date: 08/04/1963

Birth Place: Detroit, MI

Home City: Minneapolis, MN

Religion: Muslim

Education

JD, University of Minnesota Law School, Twin Cities, 1990

BA, Economics, Wayne State University, 1987

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, 2006-present

Representative, Minnesota State House of Representatives, 2004-2006

Current Legislative Committees

Financial Services, Member

Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Member

Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Member

Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, Member

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Financial Services), Member

Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees

Member, Bicameral Congressional Caucus on Parkinson's Disease

Member, Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Global Health

Member, Children's Environmental Health Caucus

Member, Congressional Adoption Caucus

Member, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus

Member, Congressional Arts Caucus

Member, Congressional Black Caucus

Member, Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans

Member, Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Methamphetamine

Founder, Congressional Consumer Justice Caucus

Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus

Member, Congressional E911 Caucus

Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus

Member, Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus

Vice Chair, Congressional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equality Caucus

Member, Congressional Populist Caucus

Co-Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus

Member, Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus

Member, Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus

Member, Green Jobs Caucus

Member, House Democracy Assistance Commission

Member, Law Enforcement Caucus

Member, Out of Iraq Caucus

Member, Pro-Choice Caucus

Member, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

Professional Experience

Attorney, Hassan and Reed Limited

Executive Director, Legal Rights Center Incorporated

Attorney, Linquist and Vennum

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

Co-Founder, Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota

Total: 1

Sanders wins second lawmaker endorsement

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is the second lawmaker to endorse Sanders.

10/12/2015

By Ben Kamisar | The Hill

General Survey

Issue Title	Candidate's Answers
1. Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right	Strongly Support Abortion should be decided by a woman herself. It is an important part of their health rights and reproductive freedom.
2. Stricter punishment reduces crime	Oppose Effective enforcement rather than strict enforcement shoud be considered. The death penalty should be used with extreme caution, if at all.
3. Marijuana is a gateway drug
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy	Support Flatter taxes benefit the wealthy more than the lower and middle class. We should focus tax relief on the majority of taxpayers instead of on the richest.
5. Stimulus better than market-led recovery	Strongly Support The federal government should intervene in the economy and inject as much funding as needed to recover from the Great Recession, including direct federal job creation.
6. Vouchers for school choice	Strongly Oppose Public schools are an important component of American society. We should improve public schools rather than destroying them with vouchers.
7. Make voter registration easier	Strongly Support Voter ID laws are racist and intended to suppress minority voting. Taxpayer funds should be used for political campaigns.
8. Prioritize green energy	Strongly Support Overuse of fossil fuels causes serious problems that we should deal with immediately. And green energy is absolutly a good option for us to Stop Global Warming.
9. Avoid foreign entanglements
10. Expand the military	Strongly Oppose In times of peace, it is totally not needed to expand the military. We can improve instruction of our country by other ways.
11. Support & expand free trade	Strongly Oppose We should restrict trade with any country which costs us jobs or which creates a trade deficit. And International trade just ships jobs overseas.
12. Support American Exceptionalism
13. Absolute right to gun ownership	Strongly Oppose Availability of guns should be absolutely limited, because more guns mean more killing.
14. Expand ObamaCare	Strongly Support Very few Americans have adequate health insurance. The government should make funds available for all citizens.
15. Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens	No Opinion This question is not counted in the answers for any candidate.
16. EPA regulations are too restrictive	Strongly Oppose Animals have inherent rights, and nature has inherent value. It is necessary to support vegetarianism and protect environment.
17. Keep God in the public sphere	Oppose Faith-based origanizations and prayer in schools are inappropriate because they fail to recognize American pluralism and religious diversity.
18. Legally require hiring more women & minorities	Strongly Support Past discrimination should be corrected. Government should enforce Affirmative Action laws in companies.
19. Comfortable with same-sex marriage	Strongly Support In free country, people are free to choose their mate, whichever gender they like. Homosexual partners or marriages are equal with heterosexual ones.
20. Privatize Social Security	Strongly Oppose Government should control the Social Security forever. The Trust Fund should not be invested in anything with risk.

Total: 194

Introduced Date	Bill Number	Bill Title	Last Action
04/30/2012	H.R.4318	To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.	04/30/2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy. (All Actions)
03/07/2012	H.R.4146	Upper Mississippi CARP Act	03/07/2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. (All Actions)
01/12/2012	H.R.3619	Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2011	01/12/2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity. (All Actions)
12/14/2011	H.J.Res.92	Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the disbursement of funds for political activity by for-profit corporations and other for-profit business organizations.	12/14/2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. (All Actions)
11/02/2011	H.R.3317	Same Day Voter Registration Act of 2011	11/02/2011 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions)
11/02/2011	H.R.3316	Voter Access Protection Act of 2011	11/02/2011 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions)
09/08/2011	H.R.2368	Put America to Work Act of 2011	09/08/2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. (All Actions)
09/07/2011	H.R.2855	Emergency Jobs Now Act	09/07/2011 Referred to House Ways and Means (All Actions)
07/29/2011	H.R.2654	Don't Default on Military Families Act	07/29/2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. (All Actions)
07/11/2011	H.R.1293	Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2011	07/11/2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement. (All Actions)
07/08/2011	H.Con.Res.64	Expressing the sense of Congress that Social Security benefits should not be reduced.	07/08/2011 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
03/09/2011	H.Res.157	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a Global Marshall Plan holds the potential to demonstrate the commitment of the United States to peace and prosperity through poverty reduction in the United States and abroad.	03/09/2011 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions)
12/16/2010	H.R.6532	Procedures for Sanctions Against Charities Act	12/16/2010 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions)
12/01/2010	H.R.6468	Rental Housing Revitalization Act of 2010	12/01/2010 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions)
11/17/2010	H.Res.1720	Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Twelfth Congress.	11/17/2010 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. (All Actions)
10/13/2010	H.R.6029	Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2010	10/13/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. (All Actions)
07/22/2010	H.R.5835	Improving Lead-Based Paint Investigations Act of 2010	07/22/2010 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions)
06/24/2010	H.R.5595	To amend section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to create, for an alien seeking to enter the United States as a nonimmigrant to care for a relative with a serious health condition, an exemption from the presumption that the alien is an immigrant.	06/24/2010 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
06/18/2010	H.R.5124	To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.	06/18/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. (All Actions)
05/27/2010	H.R.5167	School Meals Stigma Reduction Act	05/27/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. (All Actions)

Total: 3352

Date	Bill Number	Bill Title
06/12/2017	H.Res.380	Commemorating one year since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.
06/08/2017	H.R.2854	To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to permit an individual who is subject to a requirement to present identification as a condition of voting in an election for Federal office to meet such requirement by presenting a sworn written statement attesting to the individual's identification, and for other purposes.
06/08/2017	H.R.2841	To prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.
06/08/2017	H.R.2840	To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require each State to ensure that each individual who provides identifying information to the State motor vehicle authority is automatically registered to vote in elections for Federal office held in the State unless the individual does not meet the eligibility requirements for registering to vote in such elections or declines to be registered to vote in such elections, and for other purposes.
06/08/2017	H.R.2827	To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and expand the membership of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
05/22/2017	H.R.2585	To reduce risks to the financial system by limiting banks' ability to engage in certain risky activities and limiting conflicts of interest, to reinstate certain Glass-Steagall Act protections that were repealed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.
05/18/2017	H.R.2519	To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of the 100th anniversary of The American Legion.
05/18/2017	H.R.1872	Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2017
05/18/2017	H.Res.239	Supporting ongoing efforts by the United States Government, in concert with the United Nations and the donor community, to respond to drought and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa.
05/18/2017	H.R.1677	Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2017
05/18/2017	H.Res.128	Supporting respect for human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in Ethiopia.
05/17/2017	H.R.2499	To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to meet standards for the location and operation of polling places used in elections for Federal office, including a standard requiring States to ensure that no individual waits for longer than one hour to cast a vote at a polling place, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017	H.R.2491	To impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017	H.R.2477	To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the refinancing of certain Federal student loans, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017	H.Res.332	Supporting the goals and ideals of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
05/17/2017	H.R.356	Protecting Our Democracy Act
05/16/2017	H.R.2447	Low-Income Solar Act
05/08/2017	H.R.534	U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act
05/05/2017	H.R.2351	Minority Diabetes Initiative Act
05/04/2017	H.R.2392	Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017

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