Frank James (Jim) Sensenbrenner, Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who has been a member of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing Wisconsin's 5th congressional district (map). The district, the state's richest, includes most of Milwaukee's suburbs, including Waukesha, West Bend, Brookfield, Delafield, Mequon, New Berlin and Wauwatosa. It was numbered as the 9th District until 2003. He has been unwavering in his support of the Bush administration's 'war on terror'.

• He is the former Chairman of the House Science Committee and the former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; with the Republican loss of control of the House he was not chosen as the Judiciary Committee's ranking minority member (that honor went to Lamar S. Smith of Texas).^[1]

• Sensenbrenner has a net worth of about $11.6 million.^[14] He has put his money into stocks, detailing his investments down to the penny each year in the Congressional Record.^[2]
• Sensenbrenner was the top-ranking House member in terms of travel costs paid by private interests from 2001 to mid-2005.^[2] In 2005, he reported more privately funded travel than any other member of Congress. Between January 2000 and July 2006, he took about $200,000 worth of privately funded travel.^[17]
• Before his 2006 re-election bid, Sensenbrenner received $492,511 (or 67.5% of his campaign funds) from political action committees (PACs) and $233,903 (32%) from individual contributions. He donated little of the money to his own campaign.^[18] Despite his spending amount, he was able to win heavily and donated $100,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee.^[19]
• Sensenbrenner is often called "Senselessbrenner" by Milwaukee-area liberals.^[21] The Capital Times of Madison called him by this nickname in a 2006 editorial.^[22]

(From Wikipedia: James Sensenbrenner)