Unit 4 Part 1 (March 20th)

Rep. Adrian Michael Smith

    

• Party- Republican.
• District- 3rd district of Nebraska, which is a safe district for republicans.
• Has served five terms in congress.
• Background- Smith is a 45 year old native Nebraskan who has been in his state’s politics since 1999. Other than his original election Smith has won every incumbency aided election by at least 45% of the vote. His original election was near defeat winning only be 10% among an immensely republican district. This race was the most expensive one in the district's history, starting in 1963.
• Committees- Natural Resources, Building Maintenance, vice chair of the Transportation and Telecommunications,  Military and Veterans’ Affairs, and as Committee Chairman of the Four State Legislative Conference.
• The third district is located in the Midwestern portion of the country taking up the vast majority of farmland in Nebraska, a state known for its agriculture. This helps Smith because the rural farmers love to vote for him as a conservative, agricultural loving, republican House Representative.
• The PAC Club For Growth is his only political contributor to Rep. Adrian Smith.
• Bill#1 ENCRYPT Act of 2016- does not support. This lack of support is for many reasons. First and foremost it is backed by the Democratic Party, to which Rep. Smith must appose. Second being the representative in a larger rural Midwestern district the bill means little to his local supporters in the way of how the bill personally effects them. However, they will see it as a means of allowing the "other", consisting of any non-white denomination from other countries, a way of hiding terrorist threats. He must fight the bill for the sake of his districts views.
• Bill#2 Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Re-authorization Act of 2016- support. This bill will be allow this Nebraska Rep. to bring jobs in air traffic control to his lightly populated "fly over state." This bill is also sponsored by the republican party, urging Rep. Smith to vote in favor for it. The republican party is all for the limitation and subsidization of government programs into the average American's hands.
• Bill#3 Sentencing Reform Act of 2015- does not support. Over crowded jailing is not a problem for the scarcely populated 3rd district of Nebraska giving them little concern for for this issue. Also many rural republicans are the type of voters who are in favor of harsher not lenient punishments of criminals. Even though this bill is sponsored by the republican party Rep. Smith must vote against it in order to stay popular in his district.