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votes was from his side of the aisle a guy from wisconsin a buddy of his a guy named paul ryan more at the paul ryan watch posted by xoff at 6 06 pm 1 comment labels balanced budget amendment paul ryan sensenbrenner friday may 13 2011 ryan and sensenbrenner sitting in a tree who knew jamie sensenbrenner and paulie ryan bff from a fox6 gusher about ryan congressman jim sensenbrenner wisconsin s longest tenured member of congress pushed ryan to run for congress one of the lessons sensenbrenner taught ryan early on was to approach the serious job with a sense of humor sensenbrenner said not only do the two of us have a sense of humor but we re very good friends the two now say they work more closely together than any two members of congress they frequently go out to dinner and even exchange gag gifts every christmas sensenbrenner says i gave him for christmas a pooping reindeer that pooped out brown candy i got the cow talytic converter because we spent thousands of tax payer dollars trying to investigate bovine flatulence and we know a lot about that in wisconsin that explains a lot heartless jim sensenbrenner the guy who voted against relief for hurricane victims in new orleans would throw grandma out of the lift raft in a second maybe he s the brains behind ryan s medicare plan otherwise known as the republican road to ruin posted by xoff at 5 13 pm no comments labels paul ryan wednesday july 07 2010 frequent flyer makes the airways safe after experiencing a near collision on a plane in which he was a passenger frequent world traveler jim sensenbrenner got on the phone with the federal aviation administration to demand action wispolitics com reports upon landing at reagan national airport i immediately called the faa to alert them of the situation and requested that they examine the conditions that led to this near collision over a heavily populated area sensenbrenner said in a statement while no one ever wants to be in such a circumstance i am pleased that the faa acted quickly to identify the error with air traffic control operations if he can get that kind of action maybe we should consider sending him on a fact finding mission to afghanistan if he came under fire maybe he d call the pentagon and end the war posted by xoff at 4 02 pm 3 comments labels air safety faa thursday june 17 2010 big jim s stamp collection vs moore s net worth jim sensenbrenner s stock portfolio has gotten a little ink lately what with all of his shares in bp not presenting a conflict in his mind to him sitting on a panel investigating bp s mess in the gulf there s also the annual journal sentinel story about the finances of the wisconsin congressional delegation which says sensenbrenner who s worth 9 9 million but has disposed of all of his inherited stock in kimberly clark his grandaddy s company missing was the annual measure that s always been the most intriguing one is sensenbrenner s stamp collection worth more than rep gwen moore s total net worth two years ago they were equal at about 110 000 each the stamp collection s value keeps going up 10 grand a year to 130 000 now moore s net worth may surpass 130 000 now but it s not clear she reported assets worth somewhere between 19 000 and 110 000 plus a house valued at 95 000 so she may now be worth more than big jim s stamp collection but not by much we re talking about dollars of course by almost any other measure moore is worth a lot more than sensenbrenner posted by xoff at 8 53 pm no comments friday june 11 2010 selfish self centered sensenbrenner incredible rep f jim sensenbrenner who always puts himself first has outdone himself on the bp disaster in the gulf ap reports washington a multimillionaire house republican who owns thousands of shares of bp stock has no plans to recuse himself from a congressional investigation related to the gulf oil spill or from votes on capitol hill that could affect his investments in the oil company rep james sensenbrenner of wisconsin has avoided directly criticizing bp for the spill itself at the same time he has watched his bp stock tank in value worth more than 251 000 just a few years ago sensenbrenner s 3 604 shares of bp plc stock had plunged in value to just 118 000 by the end of trading thursday that s roughly half their value the day before the april 20 oil spill sensenbrenner has said his net worth is about 10 million the no 2 republican on the house judiciary committee and a former chairman sensenbrenner has kept a low profile on the issue but now he s coming out swinging he has written a letter to president barack obama questioning bp s actions and the adequacy of the white house response but refrains from directly criticizing bp for the spill sensenbrenner you may recall is one of the few members of congress who voted against relief for victims of hurricane katrina heartless is the word to describe him sensenbrenner s complaints about obama hurting his stock value provided some fodder for the cheddarsphhere illusory tenant sensenbrenner angry he didn t sell bp in april rock netroots bp stock plummets congressman throws tarballs the political environment his bp share in decline sensenbrenner rips obama even in this anti incumbent anti washington year sensenbrenner s conservative suburban district is so safe that he is probably not in any danger no matter how crazy petulant or selfishly he acts his biggest threat would be an opponent in the republican primary but he doesn t have one there is a democrat running against him despite the long odds todd kolosso a young menomonee falls small business owner we could not do worse than sensenbrenner posted by xoff at 9 44 am no comments monday december 21 2009 sensenbrenner not a crook just a dumb jerk i ve heard of damning with faint praise but this capital times editorial defending sensenbrenner s honor takes it to a new level jim sensenbrenner s probably not a crook the headline says leaving the dooor open a crack the defense of sensenbrenner against a claim by the shepherd express concludes the congressman has been on the wrong side of science the law and common sense more times than anyone can count on issues ranging from global warming to civil liberties to immigration reform that may make him a jerk indeed his record suggests that rather than a jerk of the week sensenbrenner is a more a jerk of the year or jerk of the decade but he is not necessarily a crook who has been bought by the special interests it may well be that the congressman simply is not the sharpest tack in the box posted by xoff at 10 42 am 1 comment labels ethics monday december 07 2009 rules or no rules sensenbrenner still flying high the house of representatives can pass all the stinking rules it wants but nothing s going to get in between jim sensenbrenner and a free junket that s the message in today s new york times story where sensenbrenner gets top billing in the top story on page one washington representative f james sensenbrenner jr a wisconsin republican toured a prince s vineyard and castle in liechtenstein and spent an afternoon at a ski resort in the alps all at the expense of a group of european companies sensenbrenner has long been at or near the top of the freddy freeloader list of congressional members taking trips at anybody s expense but their own even though he is a multi millionaire he s a tightwad looking for every freebie he can scarf up the house has tried to crack down on the practice of flying at lobbyists expense it looks unseemly but left more than enough loopholes in the law for big jim and his wife to fly right through more from the times while lobbyists are not supposed to pay for a lawmaker s travel for example mr sensenbrenner s 14 708 trip to liechtenstein and germany in 2009 was organized by a nonprofit group whose president is a lobbyist it was underwritten by european companies that in many cases lobby in the united states when mr sensenbrenner and representative tom price republican of georgia traveled to liechtenstein in february to learn about its banking system they attended business meetings but they and their wives also visited the malbun ski resort stayed at a first class hotel and toured the wine cellar at the prince of liechtenstein s historic vineyard according to their itinerary the cost of the trip 14 708 for mr sensenbrenner and his wife alone was picked up by a nonprofit group called the international management and development institute just since 2005 international management has paid for 34 trips to europe for lawmakers and staff members totaling more than 400 000 including five for mr sensenbrenner to germany liechtenstein norway and france the trips were largely financed by contributions from companies like deutsche bank and lufthansa which have american lobbyists and therefore would have been prohibited from directly paying for the weeklong trips top executives at these companies were often offered special meetings with the lawmakers the president of the institute don bonker is a washington lobbyist whose firm apco worldwide has served as a registered agent for the german government foreign agents are also prohibited from sponsoring travel because international management is an american nonprofit and does not retain a lobbyist none of the rules applied as a result a group of big corporations were able to indirectly pay for a weeklong visit to europe and their executives got to meet with powerful lawmakers mr bonker the lobbyist and mr sensenbrenner the congressman said they stuck to the rules and that the trips had been approved beforehand by the house ethics staff sensebrenner s flack explained with this bit of gobbledegook many organizations that are seeking to educate congressional leaders on a range of topics receive money from a variety of sources to better enable them to do so without any cost to taxpayers wendy riemann a spokeswoman for mr sensenbrenner said in a written statement right thanks for clearing that up wendy posted by xoff at 9 23 am 2 comments labels junkets personal wealth friday october 02 2009 surprise obama doesn t ask big jim s advice big jim sensenbrenner is unhappy that a louis butler has been nominated for a federal judgeship and b even more importantly that sensenbrenner wasn t consulted sniffs jimbo the fact of the matter is that mr butler lost a state wide election held by the people of wisconsin to continue serving on wisconsin s supreme court sensenbrenner said now the man who was voted off the bench in wisconsin is being given a promotion a lifetime appointment and a pay raise speaking of elections we had one for president last year and sensenbrenner s guy lost we also had one awhile back in which democrats took over the house all of that helps explain why big jim former house judiciary chair and friend of the bush white house is out of the loop these days and speaking further of elections we find that louis butler received 402 798 votes from the citizens of wisconsin last time he ran jim sensenbrenner got 47 144 illusory tenant has little patience for his whining neither your advice nor your consent are required congressman so why should they even be solicited when the sarah palin sean hannity ticket triumphs then you can nominate michael gableman and scot ross of one wisconsin now asks where was sensenbrenner s outrage when george bush made john ashcroft the attorney general immediately after ashcroft lost a statewide election to someone who had died good question posted by xoff at 12 22 pm no comments labels judicial appointments louis butler wednesday june 17 2009 sensenbrenner s consistent consistently wrong big jim sensenbrenner isn t one of those politicians who says one thing to one audience and something else to another whether he s in washington wisconsin or china sensenbrenner sticks to the same kind of unfounded misleading rationale for ignoring climate change cory liebmann has the details posted by xoff at 2 03 pm 1 comment labels china climate change monday june 15 2009 cow fart tax just a lot of bull jim sensenbrenner s been getting some media mileage with a claim that democrats want to tax cow flatulence as a way to fight climate change which he doesn t believe is happening actually prim and proper f jim says farts not flatulence because that s more likely to get attention only one problem his fears are total bullshit posted by xoff at 10 53 am 2 comments labels global warming hard times for the sensenbrenners who says jim sensenbrenner doesn t have any empathy for poor folks who are hit hard by the economic recession he no doubt feels their pain even if he doesn t vote to offer them much in the way of help the journal sentinel reports that hard times have befallen the sensenbrenners the menomonee falls republican reported a net worth of 8 9 million as of march 31 a more than 20 decrease from the previous year most of the 2 4 million drop in the value of his assets could be attributed to declines in the stock market that have posed serious investment losses for millions of americans it s a good thing he lets the special interests pay for his all too frequent junkets or he might have to consider trimmming the family travel budget or sell the stamp collection valued last year at 110 000 the same as gwen moore s net worth posted by xoff at 7 29 am no comments labels personal wealth wednesday march 04 2009 sensenbrenner meets his match separated at the dinner table hon f james sensenbrenner jr l and his serene highness johannes hans adam ferdinand alois josef maria marko d aviano pius von und zu liechtenstein duke of troppau and jägerndorf count of rietberg reigning prince of liechtenstein and sovereign of the princely house of liechtenstein pictured at vaduz castle the royal residence lichtensteiners celebrate another sensenbrenner visit michael horne has the gory details posted by xoff at 11 31 pm no comments labels junkets liechtenstein monday march 02 2009 sensenbrenner to run again on obstructionist ticket in 2010 from f jim sensenbrenner some kind words some of the goals of the obama plan are admirable like improving our economy and reducing the federal debt unfortunately he totally disagrees about how to do those things so will work his heart out to try to stop anything obama might propose that was the gist of his message as he announced to the repubs in his district that he will run again in 2010 despite having recently reached medicare age sayeth big jim the residents of this district certainly know by now that i say what i mean and i do what i say there isn t a lot of sugar coating here what you see is what you get i am humbled by the support and faith from those i represent together we can dig our heels in and show our resolve humbled we d like to see that posted by xoff at 10 34 am no comments labels reelection wednesday february 25 2009 sensenbrenner should resign from milwaukee bizblog dear congressman sensenbrenner i believe it may be time for you to move on to say i was 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