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Vicky Jo Hartzler (born Vicky Jo Zellmer on October 13, 1960) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 4th congressional district. She is a member of the Republican Party. She represented District 124 in the Missouri House from 1995 to 2000.
Early life
Hartzler was raised on a farm near Archie, a rural community south of Kansas City. She currently lives near Harrisonville. She attended the University of Missouri where she graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Education, and attended Central Missouri State University where she graduated with a M.S. in Education.
Missouri legislature
Before running for State Representative in 1994, Hartzler taught family and consumer sciences for 11 years in Missouri high schools. Her accomplishments included leadership on legislation ...
Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler is leading efforts in the U.S. House to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As part of the August debt limit agreement, the House and Senate will have to vote between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 on a balanced budget amendment. Hartzler, a co-sponsor of the amendment, is urging Representatives and Senators to approve what is truly the only effective way to get a grip on out-of-control Washington spending — and to pass the balanced budget amendment.
“It is time for Washington to live within its means as American families must do,” ...
The Super Committee charged with coming up with a trillion dollars in budget recommendationshas failed, and Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler says now defense spending is on the line.
She says President Obama has defended those cuts as necessary for balancing the budget, and that’s not the case. She calls him irresponsible as Commander in Cheif to let the funding take a hit. She says the percentage of the budget allocated to defense spending is already the lowest its been in years, and more cuts would cripple national security. But not everyone in Congress agrees. She says she’ll be ...
A Republican congresswoman was put on the defensive this week by a gay student who questioned her controversial views on marriage equality.
While speaking to a conservative group in Washington, D.C., at the beginning of June, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) likened allowing gay marriage to legalizing polygamy, incest and letting a 3-year-old get a driver's license.
"The government has to set some parameters,” Hartzler said.
At a public forum in Missouri on Wednesday, a Missouri med student asked Hartzler to explain her views.
"We’re not the ones changing the policy, OK, so you ...