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On September 9, 2009, Wilson shouted at President [[Barack Obama]] while Obama [[Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009|addressed a joint session of Congress]] to outline his proposal for [[Health care reform in the United States|reforming health care]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090903415.html |title=Obama heckled by GOP during speech: 'You lie!'|date=2009-09-09 |publisher=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> During his address, Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/us/politics/10obama.text.html?pagewanted=print |title=Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress |date=2009-09-09 |publisher=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> In a breach of [[decorum]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Wilson Apologizes After Accusing Obama of a ‘Lie’ |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJTZYsFoY1UQ|agency=Bloomberg |date= September 10, 2009|accessdate=10 September 2009 |language=|quote=|archiveurl=|archivedate=}}</ref>. This statement was met with a chorus of boos<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090902341.html</ref>, during which Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!".<ref>{{cite news|title=Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTWB1M9VPOte4M77spW7Z62NsGyQD9AK4ULO0|agency=Associated Press |date= September 10, 2009|accessdate=10 September 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/A_voice_from_the_floor_on_illegal_immigrants_Lie.html Politico:"A voice from the floor on illegal immigrants: 'Lie'"]. Retrieved September 9, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/gop-rep-wilson-yells-out_n_281480.html "The Huffington Post: "GOP Rep Joe Wilson Yells Out "Lie" During Obama Health Care Speech To Congress (VIDEO)"]. Retrieved September 9, 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Alex|last=Spillius|title=Barack Obama health care speech: Republican calls president a liar|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6165489/Barack-Obama-health-care-speech-Republican-calls-president-a-liar.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|publisher=|date=2009-09-10|accessdate=2009-09-09}}</ref> Wilson attracted national and international attention for the incident.<ref> ''[[Spiegel]]'', [http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,648158,00.html] (German), ''[[Le Monde]]'' [http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/09/10/reforme-de-la-sante-les-etats-unis-decouvrent-le-combattant-obama_1238389_0.html] (French - dubs him "Joe 'You Lie' Wilson"), ''[[El Pais]]'', [http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Obama/Ha/llegado/momento/aprobar/reforma/sanitaria/elpepuint/20090910elpepuint_2/Tes] (Spanish).</ref><ref name=time>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]], 10 September 2009, [http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1921455,00.html "'You Lie!': Representative Wilson's Outburst"]</ref> He said afterwards that his outburst reflected his view that the bill would provide government-subsidized benefits to illegal immigrants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549243,00.html |title=FOX News coverage of Wilson controversy |publisher=Foxnews.com |date=2009-09-11 |accessdate=2009-09-16}}</ref>
On September 9, 2009, Wilson shouted at President [[Barack Obama]] while Obama [[Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009|addressed a joint session of Congress]] to outline his proposal for [[Health care reform in the United States|reforming health care]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090903415.html |title=Obama heckled by GOP during speech: 'You lie!'|date=2009-09-09 |publisher=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> During his address, Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/us/politics/10obama.text.html?pagewanted=print |title=Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress |date=2009-09-09 |publisher=[[New York Times]]}}</ref>. This statement was met with a chorus of boos<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090902341.html</ref> and, in a breach of [[decorum]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Wilson Apologizes After Accusing Obama of a ‘Lie’ |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJTZYsFoY1UQ|agency=Bloomberg |date= September 10, 2009|accessdate=10 September 2009 |language=|quote=|archiveurl=|archivedate=}}</ref>, Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!".<ref>{{cite news|title=Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTWB1M9VPOte4M77spW7Z62NsGyQD9AK4ULO0|agency=Associated Press |date= September 10, 2009|accessdate=10 September 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/A_voice_from_the_floor_on_illegal_immigrants_Lie.html Politico:"A voice from the floor on illegal immigrants: 'Lie'"]. Retrieved September 9, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/gop-rep-wilson-yells-out_n_281480.html "The Huffington Post: "GOP Rep Joe Wilson Yells Out "Lie" During Obama Health Care Speech To Congress (VIDEO)"]. Retrieved September 9, 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Alex|last=Spillius|title=Barack Obama health care speech: Republican calls president a liar|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6165489/Barack-Obama-health-care-speech-Republican-calls-president-a-liar.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|publisher=|date=2009-09-10|accessdate=2009-09-09}}</ref> Wilson attracted national and international attention for the incident.<ref> ''[[Spiegel]]'', [http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,648158,00.html] (German), ''[[Le Monde]]'' [http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/09/10/reforme-de-la-sante-les-etats-unis-decouvrent-le-combattant-obama_1238389_0.html] (French - dubs him "Joe 'You Lie' Wilson"), ''[[El Pais]]'', [http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Obama/Ha/llegado/momento/aprobar/reforma/sanitaria/elpepuint/20090910elpepuint_2/Tes] (Spanish).</ref><ref name=time>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]], 10 September 2009, [http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1921455,00.html "'You Lie!': Representative Wilson's Outburst"]</ref> He said afterwards that his outburst reflected his view that the bill would provide government-subsidized benefits to illegal immigrants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549243,00.html |title=FOX News coverage of Wilson controversy |publisher=Foxnews.com |date=2009-09-11 |accessdate=2009-09-16}}</ref>


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For other people named Joseph Wilson, see Joseph Wilson (disambiguation).
Joe Wilson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 2nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 18, 2001
Preceded byFloyd Spence
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
SpouseRoxanne Wilson
ChildrenAlan McCrory Wilson
Addison Graves Wilson, Jr.
Julian Dusenbury Wilson
Hunter Taylor Wilson
ResidenceWest Columbia, South Carolina
Alma materWashington and Lee University, University of South Carolina
OccupationAttorney
Websitehttp://www.joewilson.house.gov
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
United States Army National Guard
RankColonel
UnitReserve
South Carolina

Addison Graves Wilson, Sr., most commonly known as Joe Wilson (born July 31, 1947), is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina. He was a former U.S. Army lawyer, South Carolina State Senator (1984 - 2001), and since 2001 has represented the state's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. In Congress he serves on a number of committees (including the House Committee on Armed Services), is a member of the House Republican Policy Committee, and an Assistant Republican Whip.[1]

In September 2009, Wilson received international attention when he interrupted a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress by shouting "You lie!"[2][3] The incident resulted in a formal rebuke by the House of Representatives.[4]

Education and military service

Wilson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Hugh de Veaux Wilson and Wray Graves Wilson. Wilson obtained a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University in 1969, obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1972. From 1972 to 1975, Wilson served in the United States Army Reserve, and then as a Staff Judge Advocate in the South Carolina Army National Guard assigned to the 218th Mechanized Infantry Brigade until retiring from military service as a Colonel in 2003.

Wilson was active in South Carolina Republican politics from a young age, participating in his first Republican campaign in 1962. As a teenager he joined the campaign of Congressman Floyd Spence, later working as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond.

As a real estate attorney, Wilson co-founded the law firm Kirkland, Wilson, Moore, Taylor & Thomas[5] in West Columbia, where he practiced for over 25 years. Wilson was also a municipal judge in Springdale.[6]

In 1981 and 1982, during the Reagan Administration, Wilson served as Deputy General Counsel for former Governor Jim Edwards at the U.S. Department of Energy.

State senate

Wilson was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1984 as a Republican from Lexington County. He was reelected four times, the last three times unopposed; Lexington County is one of the most Republican counties in the state. He never missed a regular legislative session in 17 years. After the Republicans gained control of the chamber in 1996, he became the first Republican to serve as Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Wilson was a member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors and Coker College Board of Trustees.

During his tenure in the South Carolina Senate, Wilson was the primary sponsor of bills which included the following: establishing a National Guard license plate,[7] providing paid leave for state employees to perform disaster relief services,[8] and requiring men aged 18–26 to register for the Selective Service System when applying for a driver's license.[9] In 2000, Wilson was one of seven senators who voted against removing the Confederate battle flag from being displayed over the state house.[10]

U.S. House of Representatives

Wilson represents South Carolina's 2nd congressional district, which stretches from the state capital, Columbia, to the resort towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. Wilson is an ardent social and fiscal conservative, and a strong supporter of the military.[11] He is a member of the Republican Study Committee.

Elections

Wilson was elected in 2001 in a special election caused by the death of Floyd Spence, Wilson's former boss. Wilson once said that a dying Spence called Wilson from his hospital bed and asked him to run.[12] He won a crowded five-way primary with 75 percent of the vote, and prevailed in the December 18 special election with 73% of the vote.[13][14]

Wilson was mentioned as a possible candidate for retiring Senator Fritz Hollings' seat in 2004,[15] but he decided to run for a second full term and beat his opponents, Democrat Michael Ray Ellisor and Constitution Party nominee Steve Lefemine, with 65% of the vote.[13][16] Wilson won election to a full term in 2002 with 84% of the vote, facing only four minor-party candidates.[13][17]

In 2003, Wilson voted for the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, including its Section 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually of taxpayer money to reimburse hospitals for treatment of illegal immigrants. In 2009, Wilson changed to his current position opposing public funds for healthcare of illegal immigrants.[18] In the 2006 elections, he defeated Ellisor again, gaining 62.7% of the vote, and kept his House seat.[19] In the 2008 general election, he won 54% of the vote to Rob Miller's 46%,[20] the closest race in the district in 20 years.

Legislation

Wilson has sponsored and cosponsored a number of bills, issuing press releases regarding seven of them, concerning:

  • Teacher recruitment and retention
  • College campus fire safety
  • National Guard troop levels
  • Arming airline pilots
  • Tax credits for adoptions
  • Tax credits for living organ donors
  • State defense forces

As of January 2006, eight bills cosponsored by Wilson have been signed by the president, including H.R.1973, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, making safe water and sanitation an objective of U.S. assistance to developing countries.[21]

Wilson is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act[22] and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.[23]

He has cited as his proudest congressional achievements the Drafting Business Expensing Act of 2003, which temporarily increased tax depreciation for business equipment and machinery, and the Drafting Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003, which assisted teachers in certain subjects with student loan debt.[24] He cites as his most important vote the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.[24]

Outburst during 2009 Presidential address

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Wilson shouting "You lie" to the President, while colleagues look on. (Getty Images) See discussion re deletion (in progress)

On September 9, 2009, Wilson shouted at President Barack Obama while Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to outline his proposal for reforming health care.[25] During his address, Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."[26]. This statement was met with a chorus of boos[27] and, in a breach of decorum[28], Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!".[29][30][31][32] Wilson attracted national and international attention for the incident.[33][34] He said afterwards that his outburst reflected his view that the bill would provide government-subsidized benefits to illegal immigrants.[35]

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Members of Congress from both parties condemned the outburst. "Totally disrespectful," said Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) of Wilson's utterance. "No place for it in that setting or any other and he should apologize immediately."[36][37] Wilson said later in a statement:

This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility.[38]

Obama later accepted Wilson's apology. "I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes," he said. "He apologized quickly and without equivocation and I'm appreciative of that."[39] However, House Democrats called on Wilson to issue a formal apology on the House floor.[40] Wilson refused, saying in a televised interview that, "I believe one apology is sufficient."[41] Congressional Republicans agreed, and opposed further action.[42] On September 15, the House approved a "resolution of disapproval" against Wilson, on a nearly party-line 240-179 vote.[43]

Wilson was also criticized as being factually inaccurate because HR 3200 expressly excludes undocumented aliens from receiving "affordability credits."[44][45] Section 246 of the bill, titled "NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS," states: "Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States."[44][46] The bill did, however, require some to purchase health insurance who were not explicitly restricted from the proposed Health Insurance Exchange.[47] The Obama administration later stated that, in the final bill, these people would not be able to participate in the Exchange.[48] Prior to Obama's speech, Democrats had twice rejected amendments to the bill requiring documentation of legal status in the United States in order to receive benefits under the proposed plan, contending that a more complex application process would delay or prevent citizens from receiving health care.[49] After Wilson's outburst, such specific language was included when the Senate healthcare-reform plan was introduced,[50][51] leading some commentators to conclude that Wilson's outspokenness motivated the more specific language.[52]. Michael F. Cannon and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review later documented twenty factually incorrect or misleading statements by Obama in this Congressional address.[53]

Following the incident, both Wilson and Rob Miller, his likely 2010 general election opponent, experienced a significant upswing in campaign donations. In the week after Wilson's outburst, Miller had raised $1.6 million, almost three times more than he had raised during the entire 2008 campaign,[54] while Wilson raised $1.8 million.[55] This fundraising surge led to Wilson writing fundraising letters for the Republican Party of Virginia,[56] National Republican Congressional Committee[57] and to one political observer describing him has a GOP "fundraising star".[58]

Other controversies

On a 2002 live broadcast of the C-SPAN talk show Washington Journal, guests Wilson and Democratic congressman Bob Filner were discussing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. When Filner noted that the US provided Iraq "chemical and biological weapons" in the 1980s, Wilson incorrectly stated that this idea was "made up" and commented to Filner, "This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous. And you need to get over that." Wilson apologized for his remarks in statements to the press.[59][60]

In 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she was the daughter of Wilson's former employer, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and Thurmond's black maid. Wilson was among those who publicly doubted her assertion that Thurmond had a child out of wedlock. Wilson said even if her story was true, she should not have revealed it because "it's a smear" on Thurmond's image and was a way to "diminish" Thurmond's legacy.[61] After Thurmond's family acknowledged the truth of Washington-Williams' revelation, Wilson apologized but said that he still thought that she should not have revealed that Thurmond was her father.[62]

Committee assignments

As of the 111th Congress, Wilson serves on three standing committees and various subcommittees overseeing specific areas of legislation. Wilson serves on the Committee on Armed Services, for which he also serves on the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces and the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.[63] He also sits on the Committee on Education and Labor, for which he also is a member of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.[64] As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Wilson serves on the Subcommittee on Europe[65] and Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.[66]

Party leadership

Family

Joe and his wife Roxanne Dusenbury McCrory Wilson have four sons and four grandchildren. His oldest son Alan McCrory Wilson is also a lawyer, working as an Assistant Attorney General for South Carolina,[67] and a Major in the Army National Guard, having served a year as an intelligence officer in southern Iraq. He is currently running for the Republican nomination for the South Carolina State Attorney General in 2010.[68] Addison G. "Add" Wilson, Jr. is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and is now an Lieutenant and graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences medical school. Julian Dusenbury Wilson is a graduate of Clemson University and is a Captain in the Army National Guard. Hunter Taylor Wilson currently attends Clemson University, where he is a member of the Army ROTC, Army National Guard and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

In an 2005 guest article on Rediff.com, Wilson stated that his father Hugh was a member of the Flying Tigers in World War II.[69] The Wilson family attends First Presbyterian Church in Columbia.[6]

Organization membership

Wilson has been a member and former President or Chairman of the Cayce-West Columbia Rotary Club, Sheriff's Department Law Enforcement Advisory Council, Reserve Officers Association, Lexington County Historical Society, County Community and Resource Development Committee, American Heart Association, Mid-Carolina Mental Health Association, and NationsBank Lexington Advisory Board.

He has been a board member of the Cayce-West Columbia Jaycees, Kidney Foundation, SC Lung Association, Alston-Wilkes Society, and Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Wilson has also has been a member of the Columbia World Affairs Council, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sinclair Lodge 154, Jamil Temple, Woodmen of the World, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Military Order of the World Wars, Springdale Elementary, Falmer Middle and Airport High School PTAs, American Legislative Exchange Council, Lexington Chamber of Commerce, Greater Irmo Chamber of Commerce, Chapin Chamber of Commerce, West Metro Chamber of Commerce, Navy League, Amvets, Association of the US Army, National Guard Association, Air Force Association, Fourteenth Air Force Association, the Yorktown Association, SC Homebuilders Association, American Legion Guignard Post, 40 & 8, Lexington and Dutch Fork Republican Women's Clubs (Associate), and Executive Council of Indian Waters Council Boy Scouts of America.[6]

Electoral history

South Carolina's 2nd congressional district: Results 2000–2008[14][70]
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
2000 Jane Frederick 110,672 41% Floyd Spence * 154,338 57% Timothy Moultrie Libertarian 3,622 1% George C. Taylor Natural Law 2,273 1%
2001 Brent Weaver 14,034 25% Joe Wilson 40,355 73% Warren Eilertson Libertarian 420 1% Steve Lefemine Constitution 404 1%
2002 (no candidate) Joe Wilson 144,149 84% Mark Whittington United Citizens 17,189 10% James R. Legg Libertarian 9,650 6%
2004 Michael Ray Ellisor 93,249 33% Joe Wilson 181,862 65% Steve Lefemine Constitution 4,447 2%
2006 Michael Ray Ellisor 76,090 37% Joe Wilson 127,811 63%
2008 Rob Miller 158,627 46% Joe Wilson 184,583 54%
Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 2000, write-ins received 71 votes. In 2001, write-ins received 1 vote. In 2002, write-ins received 371 votes. In 2004, write-ins received 312 votes. In 2006, write-ins received 151 votes. In 2008, write-ins received 276 votes.

* Floyd Spence died in office, causing the 2001 special election to be held. Wilson served the remainder of the term.

See also

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Addison Graves Wilson
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 2nd congressional district
12-19-2001–present 		Incumbent

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