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Rep. John Hostettler  

Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims

John Hostettler served in the United States House of Representatives from 1995-2007.

Following the election of Bill Clinton to the Presidency of the United States in 1992, Hostettler decided to run for the House of Representatives. Having never run for public office before, Hostettler defeated a twelve year incumbent in 1994 with a “grass-roots” campaign while refusing to accept any special interest political action committee (PAC) money. This refusal remained in place for every campaign that Hostettler subsequently engaged as well.

During his tenure in the House he served in various capacities such as Vice-Chairman of numerous Subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee (1999-2007) and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims (2003-2007). In 2004 Hostettler was awarded the Distinguished Christian Statesman Award presented by the Center for Christian Statesmanship, a ministry of Coral Ridge Ministries and Dr. D. James Kennedy.

In 2002, Hostettler was one of only six (6) Republican Members of the House to vote against the House resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to preemptively invade Iraq. During debate in October 2002, before the vote was cast, Hostettler said the evidence supporting the claim of a program of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was “tenuous at best.”

He has authored the book Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq.

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