Franks, T Rep

=<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/07/congress-reels-two-lawmakers-resign-thursday-over-sexual-misconduct/933118001/" style="">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/07/congress-reels-two-lawmakers-resign-thursday-over-sexual-misconduct/933118001/</a>Hours after Franken's announcement, Franks, an eight-term Arizona Republican, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/07/arizona-rep-trent-franks-expected-resign/932829001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said he was resigning</a> after the House Ethics Committee announced it was opening an investigation into sexual harassment allegations.Franks said he had discussions "of surrogacy" with two of his "previous female subordinates" as he and his wife sought to have a third child. A surrogate delivered Franks' two older children."I deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress," <a href="https://twt-media.washtimes.com/media/misc/2017/12/07/Trent_Franks_Leaving_Congress.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">he wrote</a>. He said he planned to leave Congress on Jan. 31.Franks said he feared he would not receive a "fair" ethics investigation "before distorted and sensationalized versions of this story would put me, my family, my staff and my noble colleagues in the House of Representatives through a hyperbolized public excoriation."<a href="https://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-office-speaker" style="text-decoration-line: none;">In a statement,</a> the office of House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he told Franks to resign last week after confronting him with "credible claims" of misconduct and told Franks he would forward the case to the ethics panel.
<a href="http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/07/most-racist-things-tea-party-politicians-have-said/trent-franks">http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/07/most-racist-things-tea-party-politicians-have-said/trent-franks</a>..."Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery."<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">No, Franks is not a shock jock or a right-wing pundit. These words came from a man who currently serves in the United States House of Representatives and has done so since 2003. Sometimes quotes sound better in context. This is not one of those times. After saying, "In this country, we had slavery for god knows how long," Franks claimed "half of all black children are aborted" (<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/02/26/841128/-Trent-Franks-other-BIG-LIE-50-of-black-babies-aborted" target="blank" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">not true)</a>. He used this non-fact to build his claim that African-Americans were better off as slaves. Franks went on to say, "[S]ometimes we get angry and say things that we shouldn't say, and I apologize...[for saying things] that are intemperate. But I don't want to hide from the truth." Before you decide how to respond to the truth, Mr. Franks, you really ought to familiarize yourself with it.
===wikiTrent Franks (born June 19, 1957) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 8th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona's 8th congressional district</a>, serving in Congress since 2003. He is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Party</a>. The district, numbered as the 2nd District from 2003 to 2013, is located in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley(Phoenix_metropolitan_area)" title="West Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">West Valley</a> portion of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_metropolitan_area" title="Phoenix metropolitan area" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Valley of the Sun</a> and includes<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,Arizona" title="Glendale, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Glendale</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise,Arizona" title="Surprise, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Surprise</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_City,Arizona" title="Sun City, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Sun City</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,Arizona" title="Peoria, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peoria</a> and part of western Phoenix.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_business_career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 Early life, education, and business career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 Early political career</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Arizona_legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.1 Arizona legislature</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Mecham_administration" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.2 Mecham administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Political_activism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.3 Political activism</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 U.S. House of Representatives</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.1 Elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Positions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2 Positions</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Online_gaming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.1 Online gaming</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Homeland_Security" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.2 Homeland Security</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Taxes" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.3 Taxes</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Criticism_of_the_Obama_Administration" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.4 Criticism of the Obama Administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Pro-Life.2F_Abortion" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.5 Pro-Life / Abortion</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Other" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.2.6 Other</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.3 Committee assignments</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.4 Caucus memberships</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px;">Early life, education, and business career<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and business career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and business career" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Franks was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uravan,Colorado" title="Uravan, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Uravan, Colorado</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town" title="Company town" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">company town</a>, the son of Juanita and Edward Taylor Franks.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a> He was born with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate" title="Cleft lip and palate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">cleft lip and palate</a>. After his parents separated, Franks took care of his younger siblings. While his parents took financial responsibility, he overtook the leadership role at home.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-GT-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a> Franks graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggsdale,Colorado" title="Briggsdale, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Briggsdale High School</a> in Colorado in 1976.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a> After high school, Franks bought a drilling rig and moved to Texas to drill wells with his best friend and his younger brother. He moved to Arizona in 1981, where he continued to drill wells.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-GT-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a>In 1987, he completed a course of study at the non-accredited, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Constitutional_Studies" title="National Center for Constitutional Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Center for Constitutional Studies</a>, formerly known as the Freemen Institute, in Utah.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a> For one year, from 1989 to 1990, he attended the Arizona campus of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_University" title="Ottawa University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ottawa University</a>, based in Ottawa, Kansas.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a> In September 2004, Franks toldFranchising World that he had been a small business owner for more than 25 years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px;">Early political career<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early political career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early political career" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Arizona legislature<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Arizona legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Arizona legislature" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In 1984, while working as an engineer for an oil and gas royalty-purchasing firm, he began his political career by running for a seat in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_House_of_Representatives" title="Arizona House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona House of Representatives</a>, against incumbent Democrat Glen Davis, an attorney, in District 20 in central Phoenix. Franks, who was a member of the Arizona Right to Life organization and president of the Arizona Christian Action Council, campaigned against abortion and in favor of tougher child abuse laws. He defeated Davis by 155 votes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a> In the state legislature, Franks served as vice-chairman of the Commerce Committee and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Child Protection and Family Preservation.Franks was defeated in his re-election bid in November 1986.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Mecham administration<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Mecham administration" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Mecham administration" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In January 1987, he was appointed by Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Arizona" title="Governor of Arizona" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham" title="Evan Mecham" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Evan Mecham</a> to head the Arizona Governor's Office for Children, which is a Cabinet level division of the Governor's office responsible for overseeing and coordinating state policy and programs for Arizona's children.In late 1987, Franks founded the Arizona <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Institute" title="Family Research Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Family Research Institute</a>, a nonprofit organization affiliated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dobson" title="James Dobson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">James Dobson</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family" title="Focus on the Family" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Focus on the Family</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-Widening-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a> He was the Executive Director of the organization for four and a half years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a>In April 1988, after Mecham was impeached and removed from office, Franks and other appointees resigned their positions. Franks had been under investigation following an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Associated Press</a> report about his decision to spend nearly $60,000, without getting bids, for a conference at a former campaign contributor's hotel.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a> Later in 1988, Franks ran again for a legislative seat, moving to District 18 shortly before the filing deadline.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a> He was successful in the Republican primary but lost in the November general election.<h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Political activism<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political activism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political activism" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In 1992, when Franks was chairman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arizonans_for_Common_Sense&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arizonans for Common Sense (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizonans for Common Sense</a>, one of the organization's efforts was a constitutional amendment on the November 1992 ballot in Arizona that banned most abortions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a> The initiative lost, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arizona_ballot_propositions#1992" title="List of Arizona ballot propositions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">getting about 35 percent of the votes cast</a>.In August 1995, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arizonans_for_an_Empowered_Future&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arizonans for an Empowered Future (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizonans for an Empowered Future</a>, of which Franks was chairman, launched an initiative campaign to amend the state constitution, replacing the graduated state income tax with a flat 3.5 percent rate, and allowing parents to deduct the costs of private-school tuition.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a> The initiative was not one of those appearing on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arizona_ballot_propositions#1996" title="List of Arizona ballot propositions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">ballot in 1996</a>.Franks worked for and later became president of Liberty Petroleum Corporation,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a> a small oil exploration company established in 1996.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a> Franks served as a consultant to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative" title="Conservative" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">conservative</a> activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Pat Buchanan</a>'s presidential campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-buchanan-19" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px;">U.S. House of Representatives<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; 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Franks ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 4th congressional district" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona's 4th congressional district</a> in 1994, after incumbent U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl" title="Jon Kyl" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jon Kyl</a>decided to run for the U.S. Senate. He lost to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shadegg" title="John Shadegg" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Shadegg</a>, 43%-30%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a>1994</dt></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2002</dt></dl>Following the 2000 Census,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[21]</a> Arizona got two additional seats and both were heavily Republican after redistricting<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[22]</a> Franks decided to run in the newly redrawn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 2nd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona's 2nd congressional district</a>. The initial favorite in the race was Lisa Jackson Atkins, Stump's longtime chief of staff, whom Stump had endorsed as his successor. Atkins had long been very visible in the district (in contrast to her more low-key boss) to the point that many thought she was the district's representative. Franks narrowly defeated Atkins in the seven-candidate Republican primary, 28%-26%, a difference of just 797 votes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[23]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[24]</a> He won the November 2002 general election, defeating Democrat Randy Camacho, 60%-37%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-Widening-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[25]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2004</dt></dl>Franks faced unusually strong competition in the Republican primary from the more moderate businessman Rick Murphy. Franks defeated him 64%-36%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[26]</a> He won re-election to a second term, by defeating Camacho in a rematch, 59%-38%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[27]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Arizona,2006#District_2" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2006#District 2</a></div>He won re-election to a third term with 59% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[28]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2008</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Arizona,2008#District_2" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2008#District 2</a></div>He won re-election to a fourth term with 59% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[29]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2010</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Arizona,2010#District_2" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2010#District 2</a></div>Franks was again challenged in the Republican primary. However, he easily defeated Charles Black, 81%-19%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a> He won re-election to a fifth term with 65% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[31]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2012</dt></dl><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Arizona,2012#District_8" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2012#District 8</a></div>After Arizona's districts were redrawn as a result of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" title="2010 United States Census" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2010 United States Census</a>, Franks' decided to run in the newly redrawn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 8th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona's 8th congressional district</a>. His new district was much more compact than his old gerrymandered district. The 8th district was only in one county, Maricopa. It is a small district in the northwest part of the county. As evidence of how much the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley(Phoenix_metropolitan_area)" title="West Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">West Valley</a> dominated the old 2nd, Franks retained 92% of his former constituents, even as he lost 85% of his old district's land. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Tony Passalacqua, whom Franks defeated easily, 83%-17%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[32]</a> He won re-election to a sixth term with 63% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[33]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Positions<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Positions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Positions" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Journal" title="National Journal" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Journal</a> has ranked Franks among the "most conservative" members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a> He is a member of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Study Committee</a>. Franks has also been active with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Smile" title="Operation Smile" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Operation Smile</a>.<h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Online gaming<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Online gaming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Online gaming" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>Franks is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker" title="Poker" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">poker</a>. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodlatte" title="Goodlatte" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Goodlatte</a>-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[35]</a> and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[36]</a><h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Homeland Security<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Homeland Security" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Homeland Security" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>On October 14, 2009, Franks joined with three fellow Representatives in calling for the investigation of CAIR, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>, over allegations of trying to plant "spies," based on a CAIR memo indicating that they "will develop national initiatives such as Lobby Day, and placing Muslim interns in Congressional offices." The request came in the wake of the publication of a book, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Mafia(book)" title="Muslim Mafia (book)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Muslim Mafia</a>, the foreword of which had been penned by Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Myrick" title="Sue Myrick" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Sue Myrick</a>, that portrayed CAIR as a subversive organization allied with international terrorists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-co-37" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[37]</a> CAIR has countered that these initiatives are extensively used by all advocacy groups and accused Franks and his colleagues of intending to intimidate American Muslims who "take part in the political process and exercise their rights."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[38]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[39]</a><h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Taxes<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Taxes" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Taxes" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>Franks is a signer of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpayer_Protection_Pledge" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Taxpayer Protection Pledge</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a> In 2010, Franks voted against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>. He has high approval ratings from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Small_Business_and_Entrepreneurship_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[41]</a> In November 2011 he voted to pass HR 2930 which authorizes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding" title="Crowdfunding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">crowdfunding</a> for small businesses.<h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Criticism of the Obama Administration<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Criticism of the Obama Administration" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Criticism of the Obama Administration" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>He opposes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>, claiming “the thought of Americans' health care decisions being put into the hands of an unimaginably large bureaucracy is a frightening prospect.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[42]</a> He is not supported by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Public_Health_Association" title="American Public Health Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">American Public Health Association</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Fund" title="Children's Health Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Children's Health Fund</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[43]</a>In September 2009, he stirred controversy when criticizing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Barack_Obama" title="President Barack Obama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">President Barack Obama</a>. He said "Obama's first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries. Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[44]</a><h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Pro-Life / Abortion<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Pro-Life / Abortion" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Pro-Life / Abortion" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>In a 2010 interview, discussing the legacy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">slavery</a> which Franks described as a "crushing mark on America's soul", the congressman said, "Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" title="African American" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">African American</a> community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[45]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[46]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[47]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[48]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[49]</a>In June 2013, he proposed a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, the time at which the child feels <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_debate#Fetal_pain_debate" title="Abortion debate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">pain</a>, but without exceptions for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape" title="Rape" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">rape</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest" title="Incest" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">incest</a>. In defense, he stirred controversy when saying that “the incidents of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low." He later clarified, "Pregnancies from rape that result in abortion after the beginning of the sixth month are very rare." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[51]</a> The bill still passed by a vote of 228-196.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[52]</a>Franks presided over a hearing to ban abortions in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia" title="District of Columbia" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">District of Columbia</a>, in which he did not allow D.C.'s lone <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate(United_States_Congress)" title="Delegate (United States Congress)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">delegate</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Congress" title="Member of Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Member of Congress</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holmes_Norton" title="Eleanor Holmes Norton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton</a>, to testify. In doing so, he said Congress has the authority to “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever” in the District, even though the heavily <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Democratic_Party" title="U.S. Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Democratic</a> district is strongly opposed to the ban.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[53]</a>Franks has also been involved in the founding of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_pregnancy_center" title="Crisis pregnancy center" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">crisis pregnancy center</a> in Tempe, Arizona, that's still in operation today.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-nationalreview.com-54" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[54]</a> In the past, Franks has picketed abortion clinics but has ceased to do so stating in a June 2013 interview that "It became clear to me that I could be more effective by trying to do something to light a candle rather than curse the darkness."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-nationalreview.com-54" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[54]</a><h4 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Other<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Other" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&veaction=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Other" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h4>During the 2008 campaign, Franks stated that he is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_skepticism" title="Global warming skepticism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">skeptical</a> about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">global warming</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a>He opposes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">same-sex marriage</a> and abortion.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a>Franks supports the right to bear firearms. The interest group, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America" title="Gun Owners of America" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gun Owners of America</a>, have given Franks high approval ratings.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[57]</a> In 2011, he voted to pass the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[58]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px;">Committee assignments<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; 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