Mike Conaway

Mike Conaway
Mike Conaway
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 11th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2005
Preceded by Chet Edwards
Personal details
Born June 11, 1948 (1948-06-11) (age 63)
Borger, Texas
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Suzanne Conaway
Residence Midland, Texas
Alma mater Texas A&M University-Commerce
Occupation accountant
Religion Southern Baptist
Military service
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service 1970-1972

Kenneth Michael "Mike" Conaway, (born June 11, 1948) is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is located in West Texas and includes Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, Brownwood and Fredericksburg.

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Early life, education and career

Conaway was born in Borger in the Texas Panhandle northeast of Amarillo. He graduated in 1966 from Permian High School in Odessa in Ector County. He is a 1970 graduate of East Texas State University (since renamed Texas A&M University–Commerce). He is married to Suzanne Conaway and has four children.[citation needed]

Conaway served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972,[1] was an accountant and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1974, chief financial officer at a bank, and from 1981 to 1986 was the chief financial officer of Arbusto Energy Inc, an oil and gas exploration firm operated by George W. Bush.

Soon after Bush was elected governor of Texas, he appointed Conaway to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, which regulates accountancy in Texas. He served on the board as a volunteer for seven years, the last five as chairman.[citation needed]

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

  • CPA Caucus (Founder)
  • International Conservation Caucus
  • Reliable Energy Caucus
  • Sportsmen's Caucus

Party leadership

In January 2007, Conaway began chairing the three-member audit committee for the National Republican Congressional Committee. By January 28, 2008, Conaway had uncovered a fraud, where hundreds of thousands of dollars were missing from NRCC bank accounts, and supposed annual audits on the NRCC books had actually not been performed since 2001.[2]

Conaway is one of the few Certified Public Accountants in Congress.

Farm subsidies

From 2003 through 2005, $14.7 billion in crop subsidies went to the congressional districts of members on the House Committee on Agriculture, an analysis by the non-partisan Environmental Working Group found. That was 42.4% of the total subsidies. Conaway is reported to have brought $322 million to his district.[3]

Political campaigns

Conaway first ran for elective office in 2003, when he ran in a special election for the 19th Congressional District, which came open after 18-year Republican incumbent Larry Combest stepped down shortly after winning a 10th term. Conaway lost by 587 votes to fellow Republican Randy Neugebauer. A few months later, the Texas Legislature redrew the state's districts in an effort engineered by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Three brand-new districts were created, one of them being the 11th, which was based in Midland. Previously, Midland had been part of the Lubbock-based 19th District. DeLay was particularly keen to draw a district based in Midland, Odessa and the oil-rich Permian Basin in part because Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick was from that area. This district is heavily Republican — by some accounts, the most Republican district in Texas. Republican candidates usually garner 70 percent or more of the vote in this area (Glasscock County had voted 93.1 percent for Bush in 2000, the highest percentage of any county in the nation). The race was essentially over when Conaway announced his candidacy. He won in November with 77 percent of the vote, one of the largest percentages by anyone facing major-party opposition. He was reelected unopposed in 2006 and faced no major-party opposition in 2008.

Conaway endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for president in 2008.[citation needed]

Personal life

Conaway has long been friends with George W. Bush, and the two mixed in many of the same social circles in Midland.

Conaway served on the Midland Independent School District Board from 1985 to 1988.

References

  1. ^ "Veterans in the US House of Representatives 109th Congress" (PDF). Navy League. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20070626235918/http://www.navyleague.org/legislative_affairs/HouseVets.pdf. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 
  2. ^ "Texas lawmaker uncovers GOP committee fraud", by Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press, published by the Houston Chronicle, March 13, 2008. Retrieved March 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Dilanian, Ken, " Billions go to House panel members' districts", USA Today. July 26, 2007.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Chet Edwards
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 11th congressional district

2005–Present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
United States order of precedence
Preceded by
Emanuel Cleaver
D-Missouri
United States Representatives by seniority
234th
Succeeded by
Jim Costa
D-California

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