Frank LoBiondo

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Frank LoBiondo

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 2nd district
Term of office: 1995 - present
Political party:	Republican
Preceded by:	William Hughes
Succeeded by:	Incumbent
Born:	May 12, 1946 Bridgeton, New Jersey

Frank A. LoBiondo (born May 12, 1946) is a trucking executive and American Republican Party politician, who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing New Jersey's Second Congressional District (map). The Second Congressional District of New Jersey includes all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties and parts of Camden, Gloucester and Burlington Counties.

Born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, he attended Georgetown Preparatory School, and then he received a B.A. in Business Administration from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. LoBiondo served on the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1985 to 1987 and was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly (the lower chamber of the New Jersey Legislature) from 1988 to 1994, when he was elected to the House. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. LoBiondo is a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership.

1 Political philosophy
2 2006 re-election
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Political philosophy

LoBiondo is viewed as conservative when compared to other members of the Republican Main Street Partnership. He has opposed federal funding for stem cell research and voted to limit abortion. He has voted for the Flag Desecration Amendment, the Iraq War Resolution, banning gay adoption, banning gay marriage and banning affirmative action. The National Rifle Association has given him an "A" rating, and the ACLU has given him a 13% percent rating because of his strong stance against illegal drugs, support for the death penalty and other conservative positions.^[1] LoBiondo received an "F" on the liberal Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues^[2].

That stated his record on several issues, particularly the environment, fits as a moderate Republican. In 2002 he was among the few Republicans endorsed by the Sierra Club^[3] In 2005 the National Journal ranked him as the most liberal Republican Representatives in New Jersey and more liberal than most of New York's Republican Congressional representatives.^[4] The Americans for Democratic Action in 2005 did not go that far, but placed him with a higher liberal quotient than most of the Republican representatives in those two states.^[5]

LoBiondo was a member of the Republican "freshman class" elected in the 1994 midterm election and was part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America.

[edit] 2006 re-election

In his initial campaign for Congress in 1994, LoBiondo pledged that he would not serve more than six terms. However, he ran for re-election in 2006, for a seventh term to begin in January 2007^[6]. His Democratic opponent was Viola Thomas-Hughes, an employee of the New Jersey Department of Corrections and a Committeewoman for Fairfield Township in Cumberland County^[7]. LoBiondo won with with 62% of the vote to 35% for Thomas-Hughes.