Who is Ron Paul?

Congressman Ron Paul is the number one leading advocate for freedom in the nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul works tirelessly for limited constitutional government, free markets and low taxes, and a return to sound monetary policies. He's known among his congressional colleagues and constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Ron Paul votes according to the constitution. He is the ONLY politition in the House that consistantly does so. As the former Treasury Secretary William Simon said, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535” on Capitol Hill.

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Served In Armed Forces

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended and graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before joining the U.S. Air Force and serving as a flight surgeon during the 1960s. He moved his family to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. He and his wife currently live in Lake Jackson, Texas.

Dr Ron Paul Delivered Over 4,000 Babies

Dr Paul is a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, and he has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and his wife Carol are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren.

Long Service In Congress

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president.

Monetary Policy

Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and was an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He has alway's been an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values.

Taxes

Ron Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. He left congress in 1984, and returned to his medical practice. Thirteen years later in 1997 Dr Paul returned to Congress to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

Ron Paul has never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced budget, never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership, never voted to raise congressional pay, never taken a government-paid junket, nor has he ever voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

Iraq War

Ron Paul voted against the Patriot Act, against the Iraq war and against regulating the Internet.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program and he returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Congressman Paul probably introduces more pieces of substantive legislation each year than any other single member of Congress.

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