Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. <<continue >>
Though
only in Congress for three terms, Steve Israel has already made a big
impact for Long Island in the House of Representatives. He passed
legislation to promote promising research to fight ovarian cancer, a
bill to protect commercial airplanes from shoulder-fired missiles and a
measure to provide federal funding to restore habitat and protect open
space along the Long Island Sound. Israel brought home more than $100
million in federal appropriations, has developed a comprehensive energy
security plan and is fighting to reduce the cost of college.