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Mike Enzi
Senior Senator from Wyoming
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 7, 1997 Serving with John Barrasso
Preceded by	Alan K. Simpson (R)
Succeeded by	Incumbent (2009)
Born	February 19, 1944 (1944-02-19) (age 63) Bremerton, Washington
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Diana Enzi
Alma mater	George Washington University
Religion	Presbyterian

Michael Bradley "Mike" Enzi (born February 1, 1944) is the United States Senator from Wyoming. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Enzi had been a businessman, who at one time owned family shoe stores. He later became a politician on the state level, having served in the state legislature for more than a decade. He was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and faces voters again in 2008.

Born in Bremerton, Washington, to the former Dorothy M. Bradley and Elmer Jacob Enzi,^[1] Enzi attended public schools in Thermopolis and Sheridan in northern Wyoming. He graduated from Sheridan High School in 1962. He is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.^[2][3]

He received a degree in accounting from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 1966. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity. He received an M.B.A. in retail marketing from the University of Denver in Colorado in 1968. He served in the Wyoming Air National Guard from 1967 to 1973.^[4] He served as mayor of Gillette, Wyoming, from 1975 to 1982. He served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991 and in the Wyoming Senate from 1991 to 1996, when he was first elected to the U.S. Senate. Enzi is up for re-election in 2008 and will likely run for a 3rd term. He is seen as the wide favorite since most are concentrating on the Wyoming U.S. Senate Special Election for Thomas's seat.

Enzi married the former Diana Buckley on June 7, 1969; the couple has two daughters, Amy and Emily, and a son, Brad.

He became Senior Senator when his Wyoming colleague, Senator Craig L. Thomas, died on June 4, 2007. His new colleague is fellow Republican John Barrasso, a former state senator from Casper, whom Enzi, as a then state senator himself, only narrowly defeated in the 1996 Republican primary 33%-32%.

Enzi has been trying since the fall of 1997 to get laptop use authorized on the floor of the Senate. He has introduced a bill that would usher in mandatory sales tax collection for internet purchases, broadband connections, and even e-mail by this fall. ^[5]

Enzi was ranked by National Journal as the sixth-most conservative United States Senator in their March 2007 conservative/liberal rankings[1] He was one of fourteen Senators to vote against the Iraq Funding bill in May 2007 despite his strong support of the war because he opposes the clauses of the bill which increase domestic spending.

• United States Senator Michael B. Enzi official Senate site

• Mike Enzi's biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Mike Enzi's voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Mike Enzi's campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Mike Enzi's campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• Mike Enzi's biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Mike Enzi's issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
• SourceWatch Congresspedia — Mike Enzi profile
• Michael Enzi - Congressional Staff Salary Information

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