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On January 10, 2007, Wu made a speech on the House floor referring to people in the White House as [[Klingons]]. Wu, an admitted fan of ''[[Star Trek]]'', said he was making a reference to [[James Mann]]'s recent book ''Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet'' (ISBN 0670032999), which |
On January 10, 2007, Wu made a speech on the House floor referring to people in the White House as [[Klingons]]. Wu, an admitted fan of ''[[Star Trek]]'', said he was making a sardonic reference to title of [[James Mann]]'s recent book ''Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet'' (ISBN 0670032999), which talks about the term the Bush campaign team used for their own foreign policy team and some of [[George W. Bush|President Bush]]'s advisers to [[Vulcans]]. Bush's advisors had begun using the term based on the large [[Vulcan statue]] depicting the [[Roman god]] [[Vulcan]], in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] where [[Condoleezza Rice]] grew up. Rice was brought into the Bush campaign to instruct him on the basics of foreign policy. The term was then expanded as she was brought into the administration as National Security Advisor to the President and grew to become an insider term for most of the Bush's foreign policy advisor team. |
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Revision as of 11:12, 15 January 2007
David Wu 吳振偉 | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st district | |
| Assumed office January 6, 1999– | |
| Preceded by | Elizabeth Furse |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Michelle Wu |
David Wu (Chinese: 吳振偉; pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Oregon, representing the state's 1st Congressional District, which includes a small section of western Multnomah county and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop and Washington counties. As an ethnic Chinese from Taiwan, Wu is the first Chinese American [1] and the first Taiwanese American [2] member of the House of Representatives.
Background
Wu was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan to mainland Chinese parents who had settled in Taiwan due to the Chinese Civil War and moved to the United States with his family in 1961. [3] He spent his first two years in the U.S. in Latham, New York where his family were the only Asian Americans in town. [4]
Wu received a bachelor of science degree from Stanford University in 1977, and attended Harvard Medical School, but dropped out. Instead, Wu received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1982. He is married to Michelle Wu, and has one son, Matthew, and a daughter, Sarah.
Prior to being elected a U.S. Representative, Wu served as a clerk for a federal judge and co-founded a law firm, Cohen & Wu, which primarily served the high tech sector in Oregon's "Silicon Forest."
Congressman
Wu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, replacing fellow Democrat Elizabeth Furse, and began serving in 1999 with the 106th Congress. He is currently serving on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, as well as the House Committee on Science. Wu also serves as the Ranking Minority Member of the Science Subcommittee on Environment Technology and Standards as well as the Space Subcommittee.
He currently is a member of the Executive Board for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and served as Chair from January 2001 to January 2004. Congressman Wu is also a member of the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), a group of moderate Democrats in the House.
In the 2006 election, Wu won re-election to a fifth term, defeating Republican state Representative Derrick Kitts of Hillsboro and two minor party candidates.
Controversy
On October 12, 2004, The Oregonian (a statewide newspaper) alleged in a front page article that Wu, during the summer of 1976, had attempted to force an ex-girlfriend to have sex with him. Wu had just completed his junior year at Stanford University at the time. According to the article, Wu, then 21, was questioned by Police Capt. Raoul K. Niemeyer after the incident. Niemeyer reported that Wu had scratches on his face and neck, and wore a stretched T-shirt. Wu was not arrested and the woman declined to press charges.
The story broke in the midst of a contentious race for Congress. Wu's Republican challenger, Goli Ameri, injected the story into her campaign in its waning days,[5] but Wu won the election with 58% of the vote to Ameri's 38% in spite of the story.
"Klingons in the White House" speech
On January 10, 2007, Wu made a speech on the House floor referring to people in the White House as Klingons. Wu, an admitted fan of Star Trek, said he was making a sardonic reference to title of James Mann's recent book Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (ISBN 0670032999), which talks about the term the Bush campaign team used for their own foreign policy team and some of President Bush's advisers to Vulcans. Bush's advisors had begun using the term based on the large Vulcan statue depicting the Roman god Vulcan, in Birmingham, Alabama where Condoleezza Rice grew up. Rice was brought into the Bush campaign to instruct him on the basics of foreign policy. The term was then expanded as she was brought into the administration as National Security Advisor to the President and grew to become an insider term for most of the Bush's foreign policy advisor team.
Wu stated that instead of Vulcans, who "make decisions based on logic and fact", "there are Klingons in the White House," but that unlike "real Klingons," those in the White House "have never fought a battle of their own," concluding, "don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war."[6]
References
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Tyler, Christina (June, 1999). "To Make a Broader Difference". The Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Schmitt, Eric (July 28, 1999). "House Renews China's Trading Benefits". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
- ^ Lydgate, Chris (August 11, 1999). "A Question of Conscience". Willamette Week. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
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Nishioka, Joyce (July 15, 1999). "David Wu in the House!". Asian Week. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Hamilton, Don (October 22, 2004). "Ameri pummels Wu over incident". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
- ^ Kosseff, Jeff (January 13, 2007). "Where no congressman has gone before". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
External links
- Template:CongBio2
- Official website
- Campaign Website
- Blue Oregon column, Jan. '07 - commentary on Bush's Iraq policy
- Wu's "Klingon" speech on YouTube