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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">m<b style="">ichael John Gallagher</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born March 3, 1984) is an American politician who serves as the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. representative</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span data-sort-value="Wisconsin08 !" style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Wisconsin's 8th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Wisconsin's 8th congressional district</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Wisconsin" title="2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2016 elections</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and took office on January 3, 2017.</span></font></div><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Early_years" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early years</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Military" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Military</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Education</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Health_care_and_public_health" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Health care and public health</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Foreign_affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Foreign affairs</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Economy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Economy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Energy_and_environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Energy and environment</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Social_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Social issues</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Other_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Other issues</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Caucus memberships</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2016</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#2018" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2018</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2020</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_years">Early years</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early years" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher lived in Green Bay through middle school. After his parents' divorce, he moved to California and studied at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_Dei_High_School(Santa_Ana,California)" title="Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana, California)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mater Dei High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana,California" title="Santa Ana, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Santa Ana</a>, while spending summers in Wisconsin. Gallagher later said his teachers "endowed me with a love for history and set me on a path to earning a Ph.D. with a focus on Cold War history."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He graduated in 2002 as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">valedictorian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jsonline.com_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-jsonline.com-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Military">Military</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[fobbit wannabe]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_officer" title="Intelligence officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">intelligence officer</a>, serving seven years (2006–13) on active duty.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> He twice deployed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Anbar_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Anbar Province" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Anbar Province</a>, Iraq, serving on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus" title="David Petraeus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">General Petraeus's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Central_Command" title="United States Central Command" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CENTCOM</a> Assessment Team as a commander of intelligence teams. He assessed American military strategy in the Middle East and Central Asia in his role as a counterintelligence officer, and as a member of the CENTCOM assessment team.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher earned his B.A. in 2006 from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_School_of_Public_and_International_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs</a> at Princeton University. With a growing interest in global security, he changed his major from Spanish to Arabic.<sup id="cite_ref-jsonline.com_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-jsonline.com-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Gallagher completed a 117-page long senior thesis, "New Approaches to Asymmetric Threats in the Middle East: From Fighting to Winning", under the supervision of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hitz" title="Frederick Hitz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frederick Hitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> At this time he completed a summer internship abroad with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Rand Corporation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rand Corporation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cambridge, United Kingdom</a>, working on a strategic study of terrorist groups such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism" title="Basque nationalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Basque separatists</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Having served on his first tour of duty in Iraq with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Corps</a>, Gallagher began a MSSI (Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence) at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_University" title="National Intelligence University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Intelligence University</a>, graduating in 2010.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher completed a second M.A, in security studies, in 2012 and a third, in government, in 2013, both from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgetown University</a>. He then began doctoral studies, writing a dissertation on the administrations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S.Truman" title="Harry S. Truman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry S. Truman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> and the Cold War,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> receiving his Ph.D. in government and international relations in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gallagher served as a Republican staffer on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor of Wisconsin</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Walker</a> hired him as a foreign policy advisor in February 2015, in preparation for his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker_2016_presidential_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Scott Walker 2016 presidential campaign" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2016 presidential campaign</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Walker dropped out of the presidential race, Gallagher worked as a senior marketing strategist for Breakthrough Fuel, a supply-chain management company. He then ran for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district seat, to which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Ribble" title="Reid Ribble" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reid Ribble</a> was not seeking reelection.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> Gallagher won the primary against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_senator" title="State senator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lasee" title="Frank Lasee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Lasee</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestville,Wisconsin" title="Forestville, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Forestville</a> village president Terry McNulty.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the general election, Gallagher defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outagamie_County,Wisconsin" title="Outagamie County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Outagamie County</a> Executive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Nelson(Wisconsin_politician)" title="Tom Nelson (Wisconsin politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Nelson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> 63% to 36%.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> He was reelected in 2018 over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_County,Wisconsin" title="Brown County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brown County</a> assistant district attorney Beau Liegeois.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gallagher voted in line with President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s position 93.8% of the time in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="115th Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">115th Congress</a> and 84.2% of the time in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="116th Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">116th Congress</a>,</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>but broke with the White House on issues such as the Trump's firing of FBI Director </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey" title="James Comey" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">James Comey</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Trump's denial of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian interference in the 2016 elections</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-:0-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> He voted against the majority of his party about 8.7% of the time</b>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2018, Gallagher argued that power in the House of Representatives was too concentrated in the leadership; he proposed allowing committee members to choose their own chairs and ranking members, rather than having these positions be selected by the parties' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Steering committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">steering committees</a>. This proposal was rejected in a House Republican vote. Gallagher also argued for consolidating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_bill#Authorization-appropriation_process" title="Authorization bill" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">appropriating and authorizing House committees</a> and a reform of the House calendar that would have the chamber sit "at least five days a week for three consecutive weeks, then spend a full week back in their districts" (a change from the current congressional practice of very short legislative workweeks and frequent long weekends allowing members more time in their districts).<sup id="cite_ref-Gilbert_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-Gilbert-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> His unsuccessful reform proposals were praised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Ornstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Norm Ornstein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Norm Ornstein</a>, a scholar of Congress, as "constructive" although unlikely to be adopted.<sup id="cite_ref-Gilbert_20-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-Gilbert-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Health_care_and_public_health">Health care and public health</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gallagher voted for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017" title="American Health Care Act of 2017" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2017 Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act</a> (ACA).</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2017, he called the ACA "unsustainable".</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2018, Gallagher voted to expand eligibility for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account" title="Health savings account" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">health savings accounts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; <b>in 2019, he voted against a proposal to allow the federal government to negotiate lower </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_drug_prices_in_the_United_States" title="Prescription drug prices in the United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">prices for prescription drugs</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>[</b>17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Wisconsin" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin</a>, Gallagher's district had some of the nation's highest infection rates. He did not take a position on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin state legislature</a>'s lawsuit seeking to invalidate Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Evers" title="Tony Evers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tony Evers</a>'s directive to mandate the wearing of masks in public as a way to combat the transmission of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19 virus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the virus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Foreign_affairs">Foreign affairs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a 2016 profile in the <i style="">Green Bay Press Gazette</i>, Gallagher blamed President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a> and former Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> for the success of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIS" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ISIS</a> in Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-greenbaypressgazette.com_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-greenbaypressgazette.com-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup> In 2019, he wrote it would be "a smart geopolitical move" for the U.S. to buy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Greenland</a>, a notion that Trump floated</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Ingber_24-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-Ingber-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2020, Gallagher voted against a measure to block Trump from taking military action against </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Iran</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> without Congress's consent.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2017, he supported a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike" title="2017 Shayrat missile strike" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. airstrike in Syria</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in retaliation for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack" title="Khan Shaykhun chemical attack" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Khan Shaykhun chemical attack</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and in 2020 he supported the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani" title="Assassination of Qasem Soleimani" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. drone strike that targeted targeted Iranian general Qasem Soleimani</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2019, Gallagher voted for a measure opposing Trump's decision to withdraw </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. forces from Syria</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2019, after American video game company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard" title="Activision Blizzard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Activision Blizzard</a> punished a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hong Kong</a>-based professional gamer for supporting pro-democracy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hong Kong protests</a>, Gallagher accused Blizzard of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese_issues" title="Overseas censorship of Chinese issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">censorship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> He co-signed a letter to Activision Blizzard CEO <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick" title="Bobby Kotick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bobby Kotick</a> that read, "As China amplifies its campaign of intimidation, you and your company must decide whether to look beyond the bottom line and promote American values—like freedom of speech and thought—or to give in to Beijing’s demands in order to preserve market access."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2020, Gallagher and Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotton" title="Tom Cotton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Cotton</a> drafted a bill banning federal agencies, such as the departments of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Department of Health and Human Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Health and Human Services</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Veterans_Affairs" title="United States Department of Veterans Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Veterans Affairs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Defense</a>, from purchasing drugs manufactured in China</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2021, Gallagher was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AUMF</a> against Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Economy">Economy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2017, Gallagher voted to dismantle the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dodd-Frank financial regulations</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-5" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>In 2019, he voted against increasing the </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_minimum_wage" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal minimum wage" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">federal minimum wage</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to $15 an hour.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-6" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He voted in favor of the 2017 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017" title="Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tax Cuts and Jobs Act</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>[1</b>7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He voted to repeal a federal regulation barring some companies in the financial sector from including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_arbitration" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandatory arbitration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mandatory arbitration</a> clauses in contracts.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> He supported the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_farm_bill" title="2018 United States farm bill" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2018 farm bill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher has supported bipartisan proposals to use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_policy" title="Industrial policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">industrial policy</a> to counter Chinese economic power; in 2020, he joined Democrats in favor of a proposal to grant $10 billion "to establish regional tech hubs that would aim to create new companies and boost manufacturing."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> Gallagher has sponsored legislation to bar federal agencies from purchasing Chinese-manufactured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">drones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Energy_and_environment">Energy and environment</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In 2019, Gallagher voted against a resolution to block Trump from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Paris_Agreement" title="United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He voted for a measure to ban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_oil_and_gas_in_the_Gulf_of_Mexico(United_States)" title="Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico</a>, but against a measure to ban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_drilling_on_the_Atlantic_coast_of_the_United_States" title="Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">drilling off the Atlantic</a> and Pacific coasts.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> He voted for a measure opposing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax" title="Carbon tax" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">carbon tax</a>, and for a delay in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion" title="Ozone depletion" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ozone protection</a> regulations.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> In 2017, he voted to repeal the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Protection_Rule" title="Stream Protection Rule" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Stream Protection Rule</a> and to repeal federal regulations to require energy companies to reduce emissions and waste and to disclose payments made to foreign governments.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Conservation_Voters" title="League of Conservation Voters" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">League of Conservation Voters</a> gave Gallagher a<b> lifetime score of 5%</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-34" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[34]</a></sup></span></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_issues">Social issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)&action=edit§ion=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Social issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher has voted for various <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">anti-abortion</a> measures. He voted against a 2019 measure opposing a ban on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_personnel_in_the_United_States_military" title="Transgender personnel in the United States military" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">openly transgender people serving in the U.S. military</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> He voted for the 2018 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act" title="First Step Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">First Step Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_issues">Other issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gallagher voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump" title="Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump</a>, and later voted against adopting two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_impeachment" class="mw-redirect" title="Articles of impeachment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">articles of impeachment</a> against Trump, on charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 201</b>8, Gallagher voted against a House resolution condemning Trump for his comments attacking four Democratic congresswomen and saying that they should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came". He declined to call Trump's comments racist, but earlier rebuked Trump supporters for "send her back" chants.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup> Gallagher spoke at a Trump rally in Wisconsin in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gallagher voted against restoring part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Voting Rights Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Voting Rights Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He voted against a 2020 bill for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_statehood" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia statehood" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">District of Columbia statehood</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-18" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2018, he voted to reauthorize the warrantless surveillance program as part of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act" title="Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AgeTrump_17-19" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-AgeTrump-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May 2018, after a meeting at the White House, Trump endorsed Gallagher's proposal for congressional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limit" title="Term limit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">term limits</a>; the proposal also received support from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fitzpatrick(American_politician)" title="Brian Fitzpatrick (American politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brian Fitzpatrick</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodey_Arrington" title="Jodey Arrington" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jodey Arrington</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Gonz%C3%A1lez(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicente González (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vicente González</a>. Gallagher's plan consists of limiting senators to two terms and representatives to six terms (12 years each). It would be grandfathered in order not to apply to sitting members of Congress, except the so-called "freshman class".<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On January 6, 2021, Gallagher was one of seven Republicans who did not support their colleagues' efforts to challenge the results of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2020 presidential election</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These seven signed a letter that, while giving credence to election fraud allegations made by Trump, said Congress did not have the authority to influence the election's outcome.</span><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 storming of the United States Capitol" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2021 storming of the United States Capitol</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Gallagher said, "We are witnessing absolute </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic" title="Banana republic" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">banana republic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> crap in the United States Capitol right now", and told Trump, "you need to call this off".</span><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In May 2021, Gallagher and 174 other House Republicans voted against creating a commission to investigate the storming.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He attributed his opposition to a desire to have non-public investigations and wanting "key language preventing interference in the over 400 ongoing criminal prosecutions".</span><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On January 9, Gallagher joined a group of other Republican legislators led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Buck" title="Ken Buck" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ken Buck</a> of Colorado in signing a letter to President-elect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden</a>, asking him to formally request that House Speaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a> halt efforts to impeach Trump.</span><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="United States House Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Committee on Armed Services</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</font></a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Governance_Group" title="Republican Governance Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Governance Group</a> <sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican Study Committee</a><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">43]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Main Street Partnership</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Solutions_Caucus" title="Climate Solutions Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Climate Solutions Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">45]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-Japan_Caucus" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.-Japan Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S.-Japan Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus" title="Problem Solvers Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Problem Solvers Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Broadway</a> actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Horak_Gallagher" title="Anne Horak Gallagher" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anne Horak</a> in September 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher(American_politician)#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup> Their daughter was born in June 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; 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