Herb Kohl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he went to public school. He went to University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1956 and then went to Harvard in 1958 for his Masters in business administration. Beginning in 1958 and until 1964 Senator Kohl served within the Army Reserves. Then from 1970 to 1979, Kohl worked on building up a family business, known as Kohl’s grocery and department stores, where he served as President until the corporation was sold in 1979. Herb Kohl is a big sportsman and bought the Milwaukee Bucks to make certain that the basketball team would stay in Milwaukee. In 1988 he was elected to the senate, and in 2006 he was re-elected for the fourth time to the six-year position. Senator Kohl has helped the community fight against crime, especially those involving juveniles and has set up programs to help prevent criminal activity in the community, such as the Title V program made to help prevent Juvenile crimes. He’s also helped to look after Wisconsin families by fighting to keep jobs open, and help low-income families get by. He’s helped fund college education, and other school related projects in an attempt to support the children of Wisconsin, as they are the future. Some of his legislation in this area helped to expand the school nutrition program and make it more effective. He also sponsored a law that encourages companies to build child care centers to help their workers find easier ways to make sure they’re children are kept under care while they’re at work. Herb Kohl has fought to try and bring costs to the average American family, trying to protect the common consumer in the current economy. Medicine and prescriptions drugs and Gas prices are two of the specific costs that Kohl has targeted to try and bring down. Kohl has supported farmers in Wisconsin, and their rights and profits, mainly in the dairy industry, Wisconsin’s main commodity. Senator Kohl serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. He is Chairman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which resides over agencies important to farmers, such as the FDA and it has jurisdiction over their budgets. He also serves as the Chairman of the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, a committee that works for consumer’s rights, and fights to keep the economy in a highly competitive state. Finally he is chairman of the Special Committee on Aging. The Special Committee on Aging is a committee focused on the issues affecting older citizens, such as Medicare and prescription drugs. Most recently, Senator Kohl has voted in favor of the Small Business Jobs Act, an act that is meant to help with job creation. It does so by providing funds for lending towards small businesses, so that those businesses can have more startup capital and be able to more easily hire new employees. On the sixteenth of September Kohl also testified against the U.S. International Trade Commission against some unfair trade practices going on in relation to china, which was hurting the Wisconsin paper companies. On the fifteenth he testified against the Senate Commerce Committee about a rise in railroad shipping costs that were causing some adverse effects in the economy this was having. He stated that a lack in competition on the railroad was the cause in the prices and that this needed to be remedied.
Kohl, Herb. Senator Herb Kohl. 10 Sept. 2010. Web. 14 Sept. 2010. <http://kohl.senate.gov/>.
Senator Kohl has helped the community fight against crime, especially those involving juveniles and has set up programs to help prevent criminal activity in the community, such as the Title V program made to help prevent Juvenile crimes. He’s also helped to look after Wisconsin families by fighting to keep jobs open, and help low-income families get by. He’s helped fund college education, and other school related projects in an attempt to support the children of Wisconsin, as they are the future. Some of his legislation in this area helped to expand the school nutrition program and make it more effective. He also sponsored a law that encourages companies to build child care centers to help their workers find easier ways to make sure they’re children are kept under care while they’re at work. Herb Kohl has fought to try and bring costs to the average American family, trying to protect the common consumer in the current economy. Medicine and prescriptions drugs and Gas prices are two of the specific costs that Kohl has targeted to try and bring down. Kohl has supported farmers in Wisconsin, and their rights and profits, mainly in the dairy industry, Wisconsin’s main commodity.
Senator Kohl serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. He is Chairman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which resides over agencies important to farmers, such as the FDA and it has jurisdiction over their budgets. He also serves as the Chairman of the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, a committee that works for consumer’s rights, and fights to keep the economy in a highly competitive state. Finally he is chairman of the Special Committee on Aging. The Special Committee on Aging is a committee focused on the issues affecting older citizens, such as Medicare and prescription drugs.
Most recently, Senator Kohl has voted in favor of the Small Business Jobs Act, an act that is meant to help with job creation. It does so by providing funds for lending towards small businesses, so that those businesses can have more startup capital and be able to more easily hire new employees. On the sixteenth of September Kohl also testified against the U.S. International Trade Commission against some unfair trade practices going on in relation to china, which was hurting the Wisconsin paper companies. On the fifteenth he testified against the Senate Commerce Committee about a rise in railroad shipping costs that were causing some adverse effects in the economy this was having. He stated that a lack in competition on the railroad was the cause in the prices and that this needed to be remedied.
Kohl, Herb. Senator Herb Kohl. 10 Sept. 2010. Web. 14 Sept. 2010. <http://kohl.senate.gov/>.