WAUKESHA – U.S. Congressman Tom Barrett will speak to a sociology class at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha on Monday, March 11, at 10:00 a.m. in the Dining Room. The public is invited as well.
Barrett will give a congressional update and respond to questions. Currently serving on the Congressional Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over a wide range of national policy, including healthcare, energy, communications, and trade, in the past he has been a member of the Banking, the Government Reform, and the Judiciary Committees.
Elected five times as 5th District representative, Barrett previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1985 to 1989 and in the state senate until going to Washington in 1992. Now he is a Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor.
A native Milwaukeean, Barrett graduated from Marquette University High School and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where in 1976 he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics. As a student he worked at the Harley Davidson plant and on a Sears loading dock and became a bank examiner after graduation. Soon he returned to school, completing a law degree with honors at UW-Madison in 1980. He clerked with Federal Judge Robert Warren before entering private practice, specializing in business law at the Milwaukee firm of Smith & O’Neil from 1982-85.
In Congress, Barrett has focused on quality-of-life issues like crime prevention, childcare, education, and fiscal reforms. He is directing his present efforts on drug abuse prevention and consumer protections for debit card users. |
