Patrick McHenry

Patrick McHenry (1975-) is a Republican Congressman representing the 10th District of western North Carolina (U.S. state), from the suburbs of Charlotte to the home of NASCAR in Mooresville to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He is considered an conservative leader, with a 100% American Conservative Union rating in 2008, is the Chairman of the House Conservatives Fund. He started in politics with the College Republicans, rising to national office.

The youngest member of Congress, he was elected in 2004, at the age of 29, he was previously in the state legislature, and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao in the George W. Bush Administration. In the 2008, he called John McCain too liberal.

Census issues

He describes himself "leading a non-partisan coalition of elected officials, statisticians, and former Census Directors in opposition to the Obama Administration’s unprecedented effort to politicize the constitutionally-mandated census. The Congressman is working to protect the integrity of the census – the basis for our entire statistical system – through a full and accurate count that is free of partisan politics and data manipulation."

Values issues

The Family Research Council gave him an Award for his defense of traditional values. He shares the most conservative voting record in Congress on family values issues, according to National Journal. He called the Terri Schiavo case North Carolina “one of the great moral issues of our day” <ref?Congressional Record, 3/20/2005</ref>

Committees

• U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
  • Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
• House Financial Services Committee
• House Budget Committee

Party and caucuses

• Deputy Republican Whip
• Republican Study Committee;

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in History, Belmont Abbey College