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I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.

My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit friends and keep my connection to the National Museum of the Air Force and my membership with the Dayton Engineers Club.

I've been at every American Legion and VFW post in my district.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.

I would love to be in Kansas.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.