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Republican politician who became the U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 5th congressional district in 2011.

He moved to Huntsville, Alabama when he was nine and later graduated from Duke University with a double major in political science and economics.

The National Journal ranked him as the 75th most conservative member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.

He has four children with his wife Martha, who he married in 1976. He has a sister, Suzetta, who was a former employee of CrimeStoppers and a brother, Tim, who is a dentist.

In 1995 he was appointed special assistant attorney general for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Brooks was born in 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina and moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1963. His mother, Betty J. (Noland) Brooks, taught economics and government for over twenty years at Lee High School, while he attended Grissom High School. His father, Morris Jackson “Jack” Brooks, was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and worked as an electrical engineer before retiring from Redstone Arsenal’s Meteorology Center. They still live in Madison County, Alabama.

Morris Jackson “Mo” Brooks Jr. (born April 29, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 5th congressional district , serving since 2011. The district is based in Huntsville and stretches across the northern third of the state.

Brooks graduated from Grissom High School in 1972. He graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. Brooks later received his J.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1978.

Brooks started his legal career with the Tuscaloosa district attorney’s office. Brooks left the Tuscaloosa district attorney’s office in 1980 to return to Huntsville as a law clerk for presiding circuit court judge John David Snodgrass. During every year except when he was serving as a prosecutor or judicial clerk, Brooks was a practicing lawyer. In 1993, he became counsel to the firm of Leo and Associates, a business law firm with a national focus, founded by Karl W. Leo. He became a partner in the firm which was reorganized as Leo & Brooks, LLC. He maintained a national practice that specialized in commercial litigation.

In 1982, Brooks was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives and was subsequently re-elected in 1983, 1986, and 1990. While in the legislature, Brooks was elected Republican house caucus chairman three times.

In 1991, Brooks was appointed Madison County district attorney. In 1992, he ran for the office, but lost to Democrat Tim Morgan. A Republican had not been elected to the office since the Reconstruction era.

In 1995–1996, Brooks was appointed state special assistant attorney general for Alabama attorney general Jeff Sessions. From 1996 to 2002, he was special assistant attorney general for attorney general Bill Pryor.

In 1996, Brooks ran for the Madison County commission and unseated an 8-year incumbent Republican. He was reelected to the commission in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

In 2006, Brooks unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Alabama, coming in third place behind eventual nominee Luther Strange and former state treasurer George Wallace, Jr.

While at a monthly breakfast meeting of the Madison County Republican Men’s Club, Brooks referred to the jobs bill proposed by President Obama as the “Obama ‘kill jobs’ bill.” He told the crowd that it adds to the debt, promotes “frivolous lawsuits,” and creates new government agencies. He challenged the president’s promotion of the bill saying, “If Barack Obama is serious about jobs, how about repealing Obamacare, dealing with illegal immigration and urging the Democratic-controlled Senate to pass pro-jobs bills that have already cleared in the House.” At the same meeting, Brooks compared the recession of 2008 (and its after effects) with the Great Depression, saying that the problems associated with the Great Depression are “a cakewalk compared to what can happen to our country if we don’t start acting responsibly in Washington, D.C., to try to get this deficit under control.” Brooks believes that if the national debt of the United States continues to grow, the damage done to the nation will be catastrophic.

Brooks is opposed to allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the United States. As part of his 2010 campaign, he advocated getting the federal government “out of the way so state and local governments can help solve the problem.” He also advocated making it “unprofitable” for employers to hire illegal immigrants over American citizens. In an interview in 2014, he stated that “8 million undocumented workers, 500,000 young immigrants should be deported”.

Brooks is opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) and has said that the committee that passed it didn’t understand it. He signed the Club for Growth’s “Repeal-It!” pledge that stated that upon his election to Congress that he would “sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.” He was also endorsed by the website Defundit.org for his stance on the health care reform bill. Brooks co-sponsored H.R. 127, which would have removed all funding from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and any amendments made by either act.

In 2010, Brooks signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity to not vote for any climate change legislation that would raise taxes.

Brooks was named a “Young Gun” by the Republican National Committee in 2010. Larry Sabato, Charlie Cook, and Real Clear Politics rated this race “Likely Republican”. CQPolitics, Stuart Rothenberg, and the New York Times rated the race “Safe Republican”. Nate Silver in the FiveThirtyEight.com New York Times blog predicted that there was a 94.1% chance that Brooks would defeat the Democratic nominee, Steve Raby.

In April 2011, Brooks stated, during a congressional speech, “Folks, we are here today forcing this issue because America is at risk. We are at risk of insolvency and bankruptcy because the socialist members of this body choose to spend money that we do not have.” After Brooks made this remark, Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison asked that Brooks’ comments be “taken down.” This request forced Brooks to either have the comment stricken from the record or defend the remark and wait until later in the day for a formal ruling over whether or not the comment was inappropriate. Brooks chose to have the remark withdrawn before he continued with his speech. Ellison accepted the withdrawal. Afterwards, Brooks stated that he did not regret his initial remark and that he thought those who objected to his comment, particularly those within the Democratic Party, were “thin-skinned.” He stated, “People could quite clearly infer that socialism is what the other guys are promoting.”

In December 2011, Brooks voted in support of H.R. 10, the “Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act,” which would have required Congressional approval for any “major regulations” issued by the executive branch but, unlike the 1996 Congressional Review Act, would not require the president’s signature or override of a probable presidential veto.

On June 29, 2011, in an interview with reporter Venton Blandin of WHNT-TV, Brooks was asked by Blandin to repeat what he had previously stated at a town hall meeting about illegal immigrants. Brooks repeated his previous statement, saying, “As your congressman on the House floor, I will do anything short of shooting them. Anything that is lawful, it needs to be done because illegal aliens need to quit taking jobs from American citizens.”

Brooks has sponsored or cosponsored 112 immigration-related bills since taking office in January 2011. Brooks also has stated that he feels Congress will probably do nothing about illegal immigration in the coming years.

Brooks believes that “we cannot continue to be the world police.” He has expressed disappointment that the U.S. military didn’t leave Afghanistan immediately after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011.

In 2011, Brooks said that “Financial issues overshadow everything else going on in Washington. That one set of issues is sucking everything else out of the room.”

In 2012, the National Journal ranked him as the 75th most conservative member of the U.S. House of Representatives. His district is in northern Alabama and is home to Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center.

In January 2012, Parker Griffith, having switched parties, filed for a rematch against Brooks in the Republican primary. He said of the incumbent, “We’ll contrast my time in Congress with my opponent’s time in Congress. The distinction is clear, he has wandered away from many of the issues people want us to address.” Brooks carried the support of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum political action committee. Brooks defeated Griffith in the rematch 71%–29%, a landslide margin of 42 points. Brooks won all five of the counties. Griffith ran four points worse than he had in the 2010 primary.

Brooks opposed the Electrify Africa Act of 2013 (H.R. 2548; 113th Congress), a bill that would direct the President to establish a multiyear strategy to assist countries in sub-Saharan Africa develop an appropriate mix of power solutions to provide sufficient electricity access to people living in rural and urban areas in order to alleviate poverty and drive economic growth. At a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Brooks said “American taxpayers spend more than $40 billion per year on foreign aid … Given America’s out-of-control deficits and accumulated debt that threaten our economic future, I cannot justify American taxpayers building power plants and transmission lines in Africa with money we do not have, will have to borrow to get, and cannot afford to pay back.”

In the general election, Brooks defeated Raby 58%–42%. He became the first freshman Republican to represent this district since Reconstruction.

Brooks supports the right for the National Security Agency to collect telephone metadata on Americans, saying its potential to thwart terrorist attacks outweighs potential infringements on privacy. However, in 2014, Brooks voted in favor of the USA Freedom Act, which, according to the bill’s sponsor, would “rein in the dragnet collection of data by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies, increase transparency of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), provide businesses the ability to release information regarding FISA requests, and create an independent constitutional advocate to argue cases before the FISC.”

In a radio interview with the Will Anderson Radio Show, Brooks stated his opposition to undocumented immigrants serving in the military, saying, “These individuals have to be absolutely 100 percent loyal and trustworthy, as best as we can make them, ’cause they’re gonna have access to all sorts of military weaponry—even to the point of having access to weapons of mass destruction like our nuclear arsenal. And I’m gonna have much greater faith in the loyalty of an American citizen than a person who is a citizen of a foreign nation.”

In a radio interview with the Will Anderson Radio Show, Brooks stated his opposition to undocumented immigrants serving in the military, saying, “These individuals have to be absolutely 100 percent loyal and trustworthy, as best as we can make them, ’cause they’re gonna have access to all sorts of military weaponry—even to the point of having access to weapons of mass destruction like our nuclear arsenal. And I’m gonna have much greater faith in the loyalty of an American citizen than a person who is a citizen of a foreign nation.”

On August 4, 2014, Brooks went on The Laura Ingraham Show and Ingraham played Brooks a clip of Ron Fournier warning that the Republican Party could not survive as the “party of white people.” Brooks responded: “Well, this is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party … And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It’s part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, creed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things.” The comment drew considerable comments and controversy. When asked about the comment later that day, Brooks repeated the claim of a war on whites, stating: “In effect, what the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant.”

On November 9, 2015, Brooks endorsed Ted Cruz for President of the United States, and served as Chairman of the Cruz campaign’s Alabama leadership team.

On May 14, 2015, Brooks sponsored an amendment to strip a particular provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, thereby preventing the Department of Defense from allowing “Dreamers” (undocumented youth who received temporary legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program established by President Obama) to enlist in the armed services.

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