(May 16, 1945- )
Born in Buffalo, New York
Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia (1985-90)
Represents Virginia's 8th District (1991- )
Democrat

He said if he had not gone into politics, he might have become a pro boxer because 'I like to hit people.'
An anonymous Alexandria police officer said, 'The Mayor was clearly guilty of assault on more than one occasion. But the word came down: the Mayor was off-limits.'
When she filed for divorce (1999), his wife claimed he abused her.
He got into a shoving match with Duke Cunningham over sending troops to Bosnia.
He sponsored a bankruptcy reform bill that made it harder to escape credit card debt after a major credit card lender gave him a home equity loan under favorable terms.
Anticipating the Democrats taking the House in 2006, he said, 'When I become chairman [of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Environment], I'm going to earmark the shit out of it!'
He told an anti-war group, 'If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this.'

He co-authored a resolution to authorized the use force in Iraq only if WMDs were found or the search for them was interfered with.
He was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy for protesting ethnic cleansing in Darfur (2006).
He mocked his combative image on the Colbert Report, punching Stephen Colbert in the face after Colbert called him a coward.

Credit: C. Fishel

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