Duncan Hunter
Latest News on Duncan Hunter
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- Candidate Status:
- Out
- Current Job:
- Congressman from California
- Birth Date:
- May 31, 1948 in Riverside, California
- Family:
- Wife Lynne Hunter; two children
- Religion:
- Baptist
- Education:
- Western State University, B.S.L., J.D., 1976
- Career:
- Duncan Hunter is a 14-term congressman serving California's 52nd district. He is also the former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and an outspoken voice on military and security concerns. Hunter is a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Army Airborne. Before entering political life, he worked as a private practice lawyer.
- Other facts:
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- Hunter's house burned down in the 2003 California wildfires.
- Abortion:
- Hunter says he would amend the U.S. Constitution to protect all unborn children. He introduced the Right to Life Act, which seeks to legally define "personhood" at the moment of conception. Hunter supports criminalizing the transportation of minors across state lines to obtain an abortion, and applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion.
- Energy/Environment:
- Hunter says the U.S. should eliminate taxes on alternative energy sources. He wants university, private sector, and government laboratories to cooperate on increasing U.S. energy independence.
- Immigration:
- Hunter says the U.S. must build a fence along much of the U.S.-Mexico border. He sponsored legislation authorizing construction of 854 miles of fencing along the smugglers' routes of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Hunter favors deporting the millions of illegal aliens now in the U.S. and thinks a guest worker program would be a big mistake.
- Iraq:
- Hunter is the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee. He has opposed attempts to set a deadline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and says the Americans must give the surge a chance. Hunter wants to see the Iraqi military more involved in the country's security.
- Taxes
- Hunter supports reform of the alternative minimum tax, and says increases in the AMT exemption amounts should be made permanent. He says the current tax code is too complicated, and that the "marriage penalty" needs addressing.
