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GOP rep. tests positive for COVID hours after delivering pro-Trump speech to CongressDavid Badash The New Civil Rights Movement  December 17, 2020U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican of South Carolina, has tested positive for coronavirus, just hours after he addressed Congress on Wednesday in a speech praising President Donald Trump for the COVID-19 vaccine.= comedian and chameleon provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen has been traveling the country and duping clueless Republican lawmakers and their supporters has been known for weeks, but as his new show—titled "What Is America?"—readies to drop its first episode for Showtime on Sunday night, clips have surfaced in which actual adults are seen endorsing the preposterous idea of arming children as young as three and four years old with guns in order to possibly intervene in case of a school shooting massacre.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-television-sacha-baron-cohen/u-s-lawmakers-shown-backing-fake-kindergarten-gun-scheme-in-sacha-baron-cohen-satire-idUSKBN1K504Q" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According</a> to Reuters:<blockquote>In the first episode of “Who is America?”, previewed for media by Showtime, Baron Cohen poses as an Israeli anti-terror expert who gets two U.S. congressmen to voice support for his fake “Kinderguardians” scheme for children as young as three.   The scheme includes a fake instructional video featuring children’s songs and “gunimals” — weapons adorned with soft toys — that would purportedly help kids confront the school shootings that have plagued the United States for the past decade.Republican congressmen Dana Rohrabacher of California and Joe Wilson of South Carolina, along with former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who is now a lobbyist at a Washington law firm, are shown enthusiastically backing the idea, alongside gun rights advocates and a former congressman-turned-talk radio host, Joe Walsh.</blockquote>While official trailers have not been released, some on social media have been posting portions of the episode:In <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/reviews/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-review-showtime-1202872783/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">his review </a>for Variety, television critic Daniel D'Addadario says the show is Cohen's best work in some time:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Who Is America?” feels both as richly comic as anything Baron Cohen has done in the decade-plus since “Borat” and urgently resonant with our own era. The show’s format—using four new Baron Cohen personae in order to expose the nature of contemporary American culture—is particularly effective, moving as it does beyond the boldface names who’ve come forward to say they’ve been pranked by the comic. The first episode, for instance, puts gun lobbyists in conversation with Erran Morad, a former Israeli colonel played by Baron Cohen. “Morad” is traveling the U.S. to learn more about gun policy and to share his full-throated support for a particularly libertine understanding of the Second Amendment; by episode’s end, gun lobbyists as well as past and present members of Congress are on tape endorsing his “Kinder-Guardians” program, designed to teach children of three and four how to shoot....</blockquote><a href="https://www.alternet.org/think-gop-lawmakers-arent-unhinged-enough-endorse-program-called-kinderguardians-puts-guns-hands-4">https://www.alternet.org/think-gop-lawmakers-arent-unhinged-enough-endorse-program-called-kinderguardians-puts-guns-hands-4</a>

Addison Graves Wilson, Sr., "Joe" Wilson, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a>, has represented the Second Congressional District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_South_Carolina" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from South Carolina">South Carolina</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">U.S. House of Representatives</a> since 2001. (<a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/sc02_109.gif" class="external text" title="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/sc02_109.gif" rel="nofollow">map</a>)

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Record_and_controversies">1 Record and controversies</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Environmental_record">1.2 Environmental record</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Biography">2 Biography</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Congressional_Career">2.1 Congressional Career</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#2006_congressional_elections">2.1.1 2006 congressional elections</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Positions_and_Views">2.2 Positions and Views</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Memorial_authorized_to_commemorate_Revolutionary_War_Gen._Francis_Marion">2.2.1 Memorial authorized to commemorate Revolutionary War Gen. Francis Marion</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Money_in_politics">3 Money in politics</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Committees_and_Affiliations">4 Committees and Affiliations</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Committees">4.1 Committees</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29">4.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Coalitons_and_Caucuses">4.2 Coalitons and Caucuses</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Boards_and_other_Affiliations">4.3 Boards and other Affiliations</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#More_Background_Data">5 More Background Data</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Contact">6 Contact</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Campaign_contact_information">6.1 Campaign contact information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Twitter">6.2 Twitter</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Articles_and_resources">7 Articles and resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Resources">7.1 Resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites">7.1.1 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#Articles">7.2 Articles</a></li>

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<h2>Record and controversies</h2>

<div style=" margin: 0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding: .25em .25em 0.25em .25em;">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Joe Wilson voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</div>

Wilson voted for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002</a> that started the Iraq War.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

<div style=" margin: 0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding: .25em .25em 0.25em .25em;">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._House_of_Representatives_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War">U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div>

<h3>Environmental record</h3>

For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a>

<h2>Biography</h2>

Wilson was born in Charleston, South Carolina on July 31, 1947 to Hugh de Veaux Wilson and Wray Graves Wilson. At age fifteen, Wilson joined a Republican political campaign, and while still a teenager he was the first staffer to join the campaign of Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Spence" class="extiw" title="w:Floyd Spence">Floyd Spence</a>, later working as an aide to Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" class="extiw" title="w:Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a>.

Wilson graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1969, obtained a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1972, worked as a real estate attorney, and co-founded the law firm Kirkland, Wilson, Moore, Taylor & Thomas in West Columbia, where he practiced for over 25 years. Wilson was also a Judge in Springdale.

From 1972 to 1975, Wilson served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Reserve" class="extiw" title="w:United States Army Reserve">United States Army Reserve</a>, and then as a Staff Judge Advocate in the South Carolina <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_National_Guard" class="extiw" title="w:Army National Guard">Army National Guard</a> assigned to the 218th Mechanized Infantry Brigade until retiring from military service as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_%28United_States%29" class="extiw" title="w:Colonel (United States)">Colonel</a> in 2003.

In 1981 and 1982, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Administration" class="extiw" title="w:Reagan Administration">Reagan Administration</a>, Wilson served as Deputy General Counsel for former Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B.Edwards" class="extiw" title="w:James B. Edwards">Jim Edwards</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Energy" class="extiw" title="w:U.S. Department of Energy">U.S. Department of Energy</a>.

Wilson was elected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:South Carolina Senate">South Carolina Senate</a> in 1984 as a Republican from Lexington County, and never missed a statutory session in 17 years. He became the first Republican to serve as Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Wilson was a member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors and Coker College Board of Trustees.

<h3>Congressional Career</h3>

After Congressman Spence died in 2001, Wilson ran for his seat in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="extiw" title="w:United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>. He won the December 18 special election easily and was sworn in the next day.

Wilson has continued Spence's pattern of conservative voting and strong support for the military. Unlike Spence however, he has attracted attention for controversial remarks. In September 2002, during a debate on the possibility of going to war in Iraq, Wilson called Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Filner" title="Bob Filner">Bob Filner</a> "viscerally anti-American" and claimed that he had a "hatred of America" after Filner suggested the United States supplied chemical and biological weapons to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" class="extiw" title="w:Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>. Wilson said later that he didn't intend to insult Filner. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62562-2002Sep24" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62562-2002Sep24" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

Wilson ran unopposed for a full term in 2002. Wilson was mentioned as a possible candidate for retiring Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hollings" class="extiw" title="w:Ernest Hollings">Fritz Hollings</a>' seat in 2004, but he decided to run for a second full term and handily beat his opponents, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="extiw" title="w:United States Democratic Party">Democrat</a> Michael Ray Ellisor and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Constitution Party">Constitution Party</a> nominee Steve Lefemine.

<h4>2006 congressional elections</h4>

In 2006, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> nominated <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Ray_Ellisor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Ray Ellisor (page does not exist)">Michael Ray Ellisor</a> to face Wilson in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) <a href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=SC&year=2006" class="external autonumber" title="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=SC&year=2006" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> Wilson retained his seat.

<h3>Positions and Views</h3>

In June 2005, Wilson responded to calls by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Minority_Leader" class="extiw" title="w:House Minority Leader">House Minority Leader</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_Committee_on_Government_Reform" class="extiw" title="w:U.S. House Committee on Government Reform">House Government Reform</a> ranking member <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Henry_Waxman" title="Henry Waxman" class="mw-redirect">Henry Waxman</a> for an independent commission to investigate the alleged abuse of detainees at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay" class="extiw" title="w:Guantanamo Bay">Guantanamo Bay</a>, saying that it "is just inconceivable and truly incorrigible that in the midst of the war, that the Democratic leaders would be conducting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guerrilla_warfare" class="extiw" title="w:guerrilla warfare">guerrilla warfare</a> on American troops." Wilson called the proposal "another example of some Democrat leaders trusting the words of terrorists over the proven decency of U.S. troops." <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200506%5CPOL20050623a.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200506\POL20050623a.html" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

Rep. Wilson has sponsored dozens and co-sponsored hundreds of bills, issuing press releases regarding seven of them, concerning <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2588" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2588" rel="nofollow">teacher recruitment and retention</a>, <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2549" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2549" rel="nofollow">college campus fire safety</a>, <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2851" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2851" rel="nofollow">National Guard troop levels</a>, <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=11740" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=11740" rel="nofollow">arming airline pilots</a>, tax credits for <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=21374" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=21374" rel="nofollow">adoption</a> and <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=27883" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=27883" rel="nofollow">living organ donors</a>, and <a href="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=30753" class="external text" title="http://joewilson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=30753" rel="nofollow">state defense forces</a>, most of which are still in committee. As of January 2006, eight bills co-sponsored by Wilson have been signed by the president, including <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-1973" class="external text" title="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-1973" rel="nofollow">H.R.1973, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005</a>, making safe water and sanitation an objective of U.S. assistance to developing countries.

<h4>Memorial authorized to commemorate Revolutionary War Gen. Francis Marion</h4>

On March 5, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Wilson authorizing the Marion Park Project. The project would establish a memorial in the District of Columbia to honor Brigadier General Francis Marion. Marion, known as the “Swamp Fox,” commanded the Williamsburg militia in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

Prior to the bill, Marion Park existed in Washington D.C., but lacked a formal commemoration of Marion himself. An organization called the Palmetto Conservative Foundation backed the effort to create one, and this bill would grant it the authority to do so. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

The bill passed 390-0. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>

<div style=" text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid #abd5f5; background-color: #d0e5f5; padding: 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0.5em;">House record vote:

<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00497:" class="external text" title="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00497:" rel="nofollow">To authorize a national monument for Francis Marion</a></div>

March 5, 2007

Passed, 390-0, <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/120/" class="external text" title="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/120/" rel="nofollow">view details</a>

Dem: 203-0 in favor, GOP: 187-0 in favor, Ind: 0-0

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congressional_actions_to_authorize_national_monuments_and_memorials" title="Congressional actions to authorize national monuments and memorials">Congressional actions to authorize national monuments and memorials</a></dd>

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<h2>Money in politics</h2>

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00024809&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata>

<table class="prettytable"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Joe Wilson

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td>Fundraising profile:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by industry:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00024809" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Wilson%2C+Joe" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Wilson%2C+Joe" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Joe Wilson</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00024809" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Joe Wilson</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00024809" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00024809" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Joe Wilson</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Committees and Affiliations</h2>

<h3>Committees</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Education_and_Labor" title="House Committee on Education and Labor">House Committee on Education and Labor</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Workforce Protections -Ranking Member</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="House Committee on Armed Services">House Committee on Armed Services</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Military Personnel</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs" title="House Committee on Foreign Affairs">House Committee on Foreign Affairs</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Middle East and Central Asia</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<h4>Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</h4>

<ul>

<ul>

<li>Terrorism Subcommittee</li>

<li>Tactical Air and Land Subcommittee</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Education_and_the_Workforce" title="House Committee on Education and the Workforce" class="mw-redirect">Committee on Education and the Workforce</a>

<ul>

<li>Education Reform Subcommittees</li>

<li>Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_International_Relations" title="House Committee on International Relations" class="mw-redirect">House Committee on International Relations</a></li>

<li>House Republican Policy Committee</li>

</ul>

<h3>Coalitons and Caucuses</h3>

<ul>

<li>Air Force Caucus</li>

<li>Army Caucus</li>

<li>Republican Co-Chair, Boy Scout Caucus</li>

<li>Bulgaria Caucus</li>

<li>County Community and Resource Development Committee</li>

<li>Co-Chair, Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans</li>

<li>Congressional Coastal Caucus</li>

<li>Congressional Diabetes Caucus</li>

<li>Congressioanl Fire Services Caucus</li>

<li>Congressioanl Rural Caucus</li>

<li>Death Tax Elimination Caucus</li>

<li>First Tuesday Republican Club of Richland and Lexington</li>

<li>House Cancer Caucus</li>

<li>House Oceans Caucus</li>

<li>Mongolia Caucus</li>

<li>Navy-Marine Caucus</li>

<li>Republican Israel Caucus</li>

<li>Republican Study Committee</li>

<li>Reserve Components Caucus</li>

<li>Special Operations Caucus</li>

<li>Taiwan Caucus</li>

<li>Welfare Reform Task Force</li>

<li>Zero Capital Game Tax Caucus</li>

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<h3>Boards and other Affiliations</h3>

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<li>Member, Air Force Association</li>

<li>Member, Alston-Wilkes Society</li>

<li>Member, American Heart Association</li>

<li>Member, American Legion Guignard Post, 40 and 8</li>

<li>Member, American Legislative Exchange Council</li>

<li>Member, Amvets</li>

<li>Member, Association of the United States Army</li>

<li>Member, Executive Committee, Boy Scouts</li>

<li>Member, Columbia World Affairs Council</li>

<li>Member, Columbia World Affairs Council Sister Cities Delegation to Chelyabinsk, Russia/ Cluj-Napoca, Member, Romania/ Plovdiv, Bulgaria</li>

<li>Member, Fellowship of Christian Athletes</li>

<li>Member, Fourteenth Air Force Association</li>

<li>Board of Advisors, The Israel Project <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></li>

<li>Member, Masons</li>

<li>Member, Mid-Carolina Mental Health Association</li>

<li>Member, Military Order of the World Wars</li>

<li>Member, National Guard Association</li>

<li>Member, National Rifle Association</li>

<li>Member, Navy League</li>

<li>Member, Reserve Officers Association</li>

<li>Member, Rotary Club</li>

<li>Member, Sheriff's Department Law Enforcement Advisory Council</li>

<li>Member, Shriners</li>

<li>Member, Sinclair Lodge 154</li>

<li>Member, Sons of Confederate Veterans</li>

<li>Member, South Carolina Homebuilders Association</li>

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<h2>More Background Data</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS021931" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS021931" rel="nofollow">Background information on Joe Wilson from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS021931" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS021931" rel="nofollow">Interest group scorecard ratings for Joe Wilson from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/w000795" class="external text" title="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/w000795" rel="nofollow">Voting record for Joe Wilson from the Washington Post database</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=SC02&site=congressmerge" class="external text" title="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=SC02&site=congressmerge" rel="nofollow">Information on Joe Wilson from Congress Merge</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.vis.org/candlist/Candidates.aspx?pid=400" class="external text" title="http://www.vis.org/candlist/Candidates.aspx?pid=400" rel="nofollow">2006 South Carolina CD 2 Candidate List from VIS</a></li>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> also has an article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson" rel="nofollow">Joe Wilson</a>. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" rel="nofollow">GFDL</a>.
=clean water ~ 11/17If this conduct seems extreme, Pruitt’s allies in Congress were willing to go much further. In July, House lawmakers, including South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who attended the Orangeburg meeting, offered a proposal that would allow the agency to ignore public comments entirely and bar environmental groups from challenging the repeal in court. The plan did not get far, but it may signal a new Trump strategy in the push for deregulation. “It would be a remarkable action to remove the public from democratic decision-making,” says Michael Gerrard, a Columbia University environmental law professor.http://www.alternet.org/labor/trump-gutting-labor-unions-advancing-right-work
Alternative facts are nothing new; politicians have been making stuff up since they first crawled out of the primordial swamp. One of the most successful lies in modern US politics has been that of “right to work” laws, which break unions under the guise of protecting workers, one of which was <a data-link="" href="http://joewilson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wilson-and-king-introduce-national-right-to-work-legislation" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none;">introduced</a> in Congress on Wednesday afternoon and will probably break unions in the country for good.A national right to work law has been a pipe dream of corporate lobbyists, the chamber of commerce, the Koch brothers, and the politicians on their payroll for decades, and is about to become a reality. Right to work laws already exist in more than half the states in the country, where unions are weak or nonexistent, wages are correspondingly low, and workers are correspondingly disposable. In theory, these laws are about guaranteeing workers’ freedom of association. In practice, they’re about keeping workers from forming unions, by making unions financially unsustainable.The main lie told by right to work proponents is that such laws put an end to “compulsory union membership”. It’s flat-out false; there is no such thing, and hasn’t been since 1947, when the <a data-link="" draggable="true" href="https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/our-history/1947-taft-hartley-substantive-provisions" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none;">Taft Hartley Act</a> made the closed shop – a type of contract where union membership was a condition of employment – illegal. Nowhere in the US, whether you’re in a right to work state or not, can you be forced to be a member of a union, or fired for refusing to join one.The second lie is that such laws protect workers from having their dues money go to political causes they don’t support. Nowhere in the country can you be forced to donate to a politician, campaign or political organization you don’t support. If you’re a dues-paying union member, you already have a right to simply not donate to your union’s political fund, and plenty of union members exercise it.What right to work laws, including this bill, do is outlaw a specific type of voluntary, private employment contract that employers and employees may agree on. Under this agency shop contract, which must be voted on and approved by a majority of employees, workers agree to pay a fair share provision – a fraction of the dues amount that union members pay – to cover the costs of bargaining and enforcing the workplace contract.The reason such contracts exist at all is because, under the same 1947 law that banned compulsory union membership, unions are bound by what are called “duties of fair representation”. Under DFRs, they are legally required to provide the same services to everyone in a workplace, such as filing grievances, providing legal counsel, or defending someone if they’re disciplined, whether they are union members or not.This also assures that everyone gets the same benefits from a union contract: health insurance, vacations, rules that say your boss can’t just fire you if he wakes up one day and decides he doesn’t like your face. The idea is to prevent unions from discriminating against those who choose not to join. Obviously, if you’re going to receive a benefit automatically whether you join or not, the incentive is to free-ride. Agency shop contracts are set up to make sure everyone shares the costs so that those grievances get filed. Right to work laws encourage everyone to free-ride until the union is broke, can’t provide those benefits to anyone, and eventually ceases to exist.Right to work proponents often point to the money unions throw at politicians, mostly Democrats, as justification for starving unions financially. But right to work laws don’t defund political activities, because no worker is compelled to fund them in the first place. The only union functions this law will defund are things like contract bargaining and grievance filing: precisely those everyday workplace activities that <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans" name="auto-linked-tag" id="auto-linked-tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Republicans</a> say unions should be restricted to doing.It bears repeating: the contracts this law will ban are voluntary and agreed on democratically. They are not imposed on anyone by the government, the union or the company. Normally, outlawing a voluntary business contract between private parties is the kind of thing Republicans consider government meddling. And there’s something distinctly unconservative about forcing an institution to provide benefits to non-paying non-members while encouraging them to freeload. But if it’s about crushing unions, they always manage to find an excuse.Certainly bill sponsors Steve King and Joe “<a data-link="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgce06Yw2ro" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none;">You Lie</a>” Wilson would never let ideological consistency get in the way of an opportunity to crush their opponents. Nor would President Trump, who was elected promising to fight for American workers. Unions are, after all, the only real vehicle for workers to defend their interests, whether in the workplace or the political arena. Taking that away from them leaves workers at the mercy of their bosses and politicians. Which is the whole point, and the only thing this law was ever designed to do.===