Summary
Current Position: CNN national security news expert
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for 8th ongressional district from 2001 to 2015. A Republican, he is a former law enforcement officer and chaired of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015. Lost the US Senate election in 2024.
Rogers also served as an executive producer for the CNN program Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.
OnAir Post: Mike Rogers
About
Overview
Service, that is what has defined the life of Mike Rogers.
Mike was born and raised in Livingston County, Michigan. His parents were leaders in the community, his dad was a teacher, a coach, and a vice principal, and his mother led the local chamber of commerce, fighting for small businesses.
After graduating from Howell High School and Adrian College, Mike began his service to the American people as a lieutenant in the United States Army. Following his time in the Army, Mike continued serving his country as a Special Agent in the FBI, taking down organized crime and public corruption in Chicago.
Seeing this corrupt activity firsthand, Mike knew that people of character were required to step up and serve. Mike’s idea of public service has always been to serve others, not yourself. In 1994, Mike decided it was time to run for the Michigan Senate and to serve his community as their voice in the legislature.
As a State Senator, Mike worked to help families stay safe and succeed. He wrote the legislation that created Michigan’s 529 College Savings Program, helping families save for their children’s education. Mike also fought to reduce burdensome regulations that were harming our small businesses and worked with law enforcement to get them the new tools they needed to take down child predators.
In 2000, Mike ran to represent Michigan in Congress, defeating his Democrat opponent in the closest race in the country that year. In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare. Mike also authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land while families were burying service members who made the ultimate sacrifice a federal crime.
On the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Mike worked to secure our nations’ energy independence and unleash American made energy by reducing the regulations and tax burdens on American families and small businesses.
Mike made his greatest mark in Congress through his service as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He was among the first to sound the alarm on the economic and national security danger posed by China. Mike also fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly working to protect Michigan’s auto industry.
In 2015, Mike entered the private sector, creating a business where he became a champion for American innovation, passionately helping the small businesses that are the backbone of our economy. Mike is also passionate about the field of cyber security, working with companies large and small to protect their data from criminals and bad-acting countries like China.
Mike is happily married to his wife Kristi, who has also lived a life of service. She served in Iraq as a liaison for the Department of Defense and worked to secure our borders with the Customs and Border Protection Agency. Service is instilled in their family. Mike’s daughter served in AmeriCorps after college, helping armed service members get access to the care they need. His son, the 4th generation of the Rogers family to serve in the U.S. military, is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and is currently serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
Mike Rogers has always answered the call to serve, and he is ready to serve Michigan in the United States Senate.
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Politics
U.S. House of Representatives
Source: Wikipedia
Rogers was elected as a Republican from the 8th district of Michigan to the United States House of Representatives in one of the nation’s closest congressional races of 2000. He defeated Democratic State Senator Dianne Byrum by 111 votes to win the district 8 seat left open by Debbie Stabenow.However, the district was redrawn to be much friendlier to Republicans in the 2002 round of redistricting. It lost its share of heavily Democratic Genesee County while being pushed further east into the solidly Republican northern portion of Oakland County and also gaining Republican-leaning Clinton County, north of Lansing.
Tenure
Mike Rogers spoke at Hudson Institute about Clear and Present Danger: Confronting the Cyber Threat from China and Russia.
Mike Rogers and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talked during the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Eisenhower award dinner.
Rogers’s measure to make education savings plans free of federal taxes was adopted in 2003 (see Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001). His health savings account program for low-income families who are covered by Medicaid was signed into law on February 8, 2008.
Rogers was the primary sponsor of the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, H.R. bill 5037, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 29, 2006.
The CBO has said that Rogers’s H.R. 1206 to make it easier for states to obtain waivers from some Medical Loss Ratio requirements would add $1.1 billion to the deficit between 2013 and 2022.[13]
On November 30, 2011, Rogers introduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Rogers introduced and supported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (H.R. 4681; 113th Congress), a bill that would authorize a variety of intelligence agencies and their appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
In March 2014, Rogers announced he would not seek an 8th term in Congress.[17] He later launched “Something to Think About”, a daily radio segment.[18] Former Michigan State Senator Mike Bishop won the Republican primary and defeated Democratic challenger Eric Schertzing.
Committee assignments
Committee on Energy and CommerceSubcommittee on Communications and Technology
Subcommittee on Health
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Chairman)As chair of the full committee, he may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
Issues
Get America Back on Track
Source: Campaign Site
WE FACE A CHINESE FUTURE, IF WE ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN
Unless we make a change in 2024 and take the challenge that China represents seriously, we will lose in this era of strategic competition. We on a path that will see the most profound geopolitical defeat in our country’s history, not through invasion or by force of arms, but through the erosion of American power. The consequences of this defeat are ones from which our country may never recover and never return, but will look longingly at today, which will be seen as halcyon days by comparison.
A world where China wins is one where America’s fate is not in its own hands. The decisions of Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party will have far greater impact than those of Washington. The hands of the president and Congress are tied; their powers circumscribed by Beijing’s actions on the international stage. This is not idle speculation or alarmism but stated goal of the Chinese Communist Party. China wants to recapture what it views as its lost position of greatness after a “century of humiliation”.
A world in which China wins is wholly alien to Americans today.
A world in which China wins will see the dominance of the dollar ended. An increasing number of countries are accepting the yuan in lieu of the dollar—Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina, for example. The relative stability of America’s markets is upended as the dollar is replaced by the yuan. Interest rates will be far higher than today and the cost of borrowing money prohibitively expensive. Americans purchasing power at home and abroad will erode.
A world in which China sets the international rules for trade is one in which companies and businesses do not compete on an even playing field. The Chinese Communist Party will put its hands on the scales, tipping them in favor of Chinese businesses. The United States has filed nearly 30 cases with the World Trade Organization about China’s unfair practices, and won every single one, yet Beijing still refuses to play by the rules.
A China that controls the supply chains for critical minerals and rare earth elements is one that dominates future industries. Today, Beijing accounts for over 60% of the world’s rare earth mining and 85% of its processing. The vital components for the green revolution are wholly in Beijing’s hands, giving it profound leverage while the world works to shift from fossil fuels to advanced batteries. It can simply turn off the taps whenever it wants, or merely threaten that
very supply to ensure compliance with its interests.
Chinese dominance means its apps and tools are in the hands of every American, affording Beijing unparalleled access to every citizen. With apps like TikTok, which already has 150 million users in America, China can censor what our citizens see, ensuring that only Party approved messages a viewed by Americans—it is ubiquitous stealth censorship and the direct erosion of our democracy. A dominant China will promote those who agree with it and denigrate those who run afoul of the Party’s platform.
A dominant China is one that pushes America out of the Indo-Pacific and bullies its neighbors, and one that retakes Taiwan by force. China now has the world’s largest navy, with 355 ships at sea, and rising. America’s one-time allies will look elsewhere for security and reassurance, pursuing their own defense policies and creating more instability, not less. In this world, America’s military is a paper tiger, hollowed out, and unable to defend our national interests.
This is a future we can avoid if we act today and take the challenge seriously. It means the smart and judicious application of power abroad and the reinvigoration of our democratic republic at home. It means jettisoning the sugar-high politics of confrontation and celebrity and rising above our petty politics.
It means getting our fiscal house in order. In 2022, China held $981 billion of our debt, exposing us to unacceptable levels of risk. We cannot afford to spend as recklessly as we do on outdated and inefficient programs that cost more each year and deliver less to our citizens. Reducing our borrowing from China and strengthening our economy at home will create greater stability in both foreign and domestic markets, giving greater confidence in the dollar and enhancing its competitiveness. This means modernizing government, which will lead to smaller, better, and more efficient government.
This means ending China’s campaign of industrial espionage of the next generation of technology. The scale of this campaign is staggering: right now, the FBI opens a counterespionage case every 10 hours. It means putting a stop to the Chinese Communist Party’s unfettered access to our country’s best and brightest education and research institutions.
It means outcompeting China. This means re-engaging with our allies and partners in international forums. It means mobilizing American business. It means unleashing American innovation, not constraining it for narrow social agendas. It means securing deals with our allies and partners based on the rule of law. In our own hemisphere, China’s reach has rapidly expanded—over 20 countries participate in Beijing’s One Belt, One Road development initiative, and over 15% of Latin America’s exports go to China, up from 1% at the turn of the century. We need to get back out onto the playing field and make American businesses more competitive.
An America in charge of its own destiny is one that limits the unfettered access to and manipulation of our democracy. It means taking a much closer look at investments, apps, and technology from China and being unafraid to use the powers of government protect the American people.
We must win in this contest against China, but more importantly we can if we act now.
Biden’s Border Crisis Endangers All Of Us
During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden declared that he would build “not another foot” of border wall. The day President Biden took office in 2021 he kept that promise by ordering an immediate end to border wall construction, sending a message to the world that our southern border was wide open. The impact of that decision, and of ending the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, have been catastrophic.
Recently, big-city mayors from sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago, and Denver went to Washington, D.C., to demand $5 billion in federal funding to deal with the massive influx of illegal migrants into their cities.
This has put an immense burden on law enforcement, hospitals, and schools. It’s also creating a humanitarian crisis where migrant women and children are trafficked into the sex trade and illicit drugs like Chinese fentanyl flood our communities and kill over 100,000 Americans each year.
While all of those impacts on our society from the Biden open border policy are terrible, the threat to our national security may be worse. During a recent Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, it was reported that more than 1.7 million known “gotaways” have occurred since President Biden took office. That’s on top of the nearly 2.5 million encounters with illegal migrants the Border Patrol reported in 2023. An estimated 6.2 million illegal border crossings have occurred since President Biden took office, enough to fill up the Big House and Spartan Stadium 34 times.
Included in the 2.5 million encounters are nearly 200 individuals who appeared on the terrorist watch list, the greatest number ever recorded. This contrasts sharply with 2019, when President Trump’s border policies were in place, when zero people on the terrorist watch list were encountered. Zero.
As the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, I understand the threats to America posed by terrorists and rogue regimes like Iran. If you are an Iranian-backed terrorist trained to do bad things, your goal is to not get caught. So it raises the question: how many other terrorists are included in the 1.7 million “gotaways” who crossed our border during the Biden administration? Extrapolating from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data tells us there are a whole lot more bad actors in our nation today as a result of our non-existent southern border.
We don’t know who they are, where they are, or what they are doing in the United States.
We all watched in horror as Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, raping, torturing, and murdering over 1,400 innocent Israelis and taking hundreds more as hostages into Gaza, including Americans. Fox News recently reported on an internal memo from CBP’s San Diego field office warning that terrorists “inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border.”
This comes as we’ve seen a spike in Iranian and Chinese nationals crossing our border, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
We must secure the southern border immediately and stop anyone from illegally entering our country. Full stop.
We cannot take a chance of a Hamas style attack in this nation, and to stop it from happening the Biden administration and Congress need to get to work immediately. Necessary actions include immediately reinstating the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, restarting the construction of physical barriers in places that make sense, hiring additional border protection personnel, and utilizing technology to locate illegal crossings.
The time to secure our wide open southern border is now, because it has quickly become a massive threat to our national security.
More Information
Wikipedia
Michael J. Rogers (born June 2, 1963)[1] is an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015.
After retiring from the U.S. House, Rogers was hired by CNN as a national security commentator.[2] He was also executive producer for the CNN program Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.[2] Rogers was the Republican nominee in the 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan, narrowly losing to Democratic nominee Elissa Slotkin.[3][4]
Early life and career
Rogers was born in Livonia, Michigan,[5] the son of Joyce A. and John C. Rogers.[6] He graduated from Adrian College in 1985, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology. Rogers served in the United States Army from 1985 to 1989.[5] Rogers is on Telefonica‘s Technical and Security Advisory Committee and a board member of IP3 International.[7][8]
Law enforcement career
Rogers worked as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its Chicago office, specializing in organized crime and public corruption from 1989 to 1994. He is a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2017, Rogers was interviewed to be the new director of the FBI after James Comey was dismissed.[9]
Michigan State Senate
Rogers was first elected in 1994. In 1998, he won a second term with 68% of the vote.[10] He represented three counties: Clinton, Livingston, and Shiawassee. He served as majority leader from 1999 to 2000. Rogers wrote legislation creating the Michigan Education Savings Program.[11]
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
Rogers was elected as a Republican from the 8th district of Michigan to the United States House of Representatives in one of the nation’s closest congressional races of 2000. He defeated Democratic State Senator Dianne Byrum by 111 votes to win the district 8 seat left open by Debbie Stabenow.[12] However, the district was redrawn to be much friendlier to Republicans in the 2002 round of redistricting. It lost its share of heavily Democratic Genesee County while being pushed further east into the solidly Republican northern portion of Oakland County and also gaining Republican-leaning Clinton County, north of Lansing.
Tenure
Rogers’s measure to make education savings plans free of federal taxes was adopted in 2003 (see Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001). His health savings account program for low-income families who are covered by Medicaid was signed into law on February 8, 2008.[13] Rogers was the primary sponsor of the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, H.R. bill 5037, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 29, 2006.[14] The CBO has said that Rogers’s H.R. 1206 to make it easier for states to obtain waivers from some Medical Loss Ratio requirements would add $1.1 billion to the deficit between 2013 and 2022.[15]
On November 30, 2011, Rogers introduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).[16] Rogers introduced and supported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (H.R. 4681; 113th Congress), a bill that would authorize a variety of intelligence agencies and their appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.[17][18] In March 2014, Rogers announced he would not seek an 8th term in Congress.[19] He later launched “Something to Think About”, a daily radio segment.[20] Former Michigan State Senator Mike Bishop won the Republican primary and defeated Democratic challenger Eric Schertzing.[21]
Committee assignments
- Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Chairman)
- As chair of the full committee, he may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
U.S. Senate candidacy
In August 2023, Rogers announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate to succeed the retiring Democrat Debbie Stabenow.[22] He won the Republican primary with over 60% of the vote on August 6, 2024, and was the Republican nominee in the general election against Democrat Elissa Slotkin.[3] He was defeated in the November election.[4]
Personal life
Rogers has been married to his second wife, Kristi Rogers, since 2010. He has two children from his first marriage. Rogers’s older brother, Bill, was a state representative in Michigan.[23]
Rogers sits on the Atlantic Council‘s Board of Directors.[24] He is also the David M. Abshire Chair at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress,[25] an Intelligence Project Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center,[26] a member of George Mason University’s National Security Institute Board of Advisors,[27] and the chair of the board of trustees for the Mitre Corporation.[28]
References
- ^ “ROGERS, Mike 1963 –”. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ^ a b “CNN Profiles – Mike Rogers – Host, “Declassified” & CNN National Security Commentator”. CNN. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ a b Weisman, Jonathan (August 7, 2024). “Elissa Slotkin and Mike Rogers Will Face Off in Key Michigan Senate Race”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ a b “Democrat Elissa Slotkin wins Michigan Senate seat over Republican Mike Rogers”. NBC News. November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ a b “x.com”. X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved May 25, 2024.
- ^ “Congressional Record – 111th Congress (2009-2010) – THOMAS (Library of Congress)”. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- ^ Linfante, Austin (July 3, 2024). “Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers connected to Saudi companies, including one with nuclear ambitions”. Heartland Signal. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ^ “OUR TEAM – IP3 Int’l”. IP3 Int’l. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- ^ “Ex-Rep. Mike Rogers interviewed for FBI director”. Detroit News. Retrieved May 22, 2017.
- ^ “Our Campaigns – MI State Senate 26 Race – Nov 03, 1998”. www.ourcampaigns.com.
- ^ http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/1999-2000/publicact/pdf/2000-PA-0161.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ “2000 Official Michigan General Election Results – 8th District Representative in Congress 2 Year Term (1) Position”. Miboecfr.nicusa.com. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ “MICROCOMP output file” (PDF). Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ “H.R.5037 – Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act”. congress.gov. January 8, 2023.
- ^ Viebeck, Elise. “CBO: GOP bill revising health law ratio will add to deficit.” The Hill, November 8, 2012.
- ^ “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (2012; 112th Congress H.R. 3523) – GovTrack.us”. GovTrack.us.
- ^ Marcos, Cristina (May 30, 2014). “House authorizes intel programs through 2015”. The Hill. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ^ “H.R. 4681 – Summary”. United States Congress. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ^ “Race for Rogers’ seat is wide open in 8th Congressional District | the Detroit News”. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014.
- ^ ““Something to Think About” with Mike Rogers Launches in January on Radio Stations Nationwide Through Nation’s Largest Talk Platform”. westwoodone.com. November 6, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ “Former State Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop wins 8th Congressional District”. Detroit News. November 4, 2014.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (August 29, 2023). “Former Rep. Mike Rogers jumps into Michigan’s US Senate race”. Detroit Free Press. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Hans, Casey (January 2, 2009). “Rogers family makes service part of life”. mlive. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ^ “Board of Directors”. Atlantic Council. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
- ^ “Mike Rogers”. Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ “Mike Rogers”. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ “Advisory Board”. National Security Institute. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ “Mike Rogers Elected Chairman of the MITRE Board of Trustees”. MITRE. November 16, 2021.
External links
- Campaign website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
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