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In Green’s four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he served as an Assistant Majority Whip and was an active member of the House Judiciary Committee. He served as Vice Chair of the Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee, and co-founded the bipartisan Faith-Based Caucus. He co-led the floor debate on the "Faith-Based Initiative", a plan to re-enlist faith-based communities in the national fight against poverty and social crises.
As part of that effort, he co-founded the bipartisan Faith-Based Caucus. Green was a leader in designing laws aimed at protecting children and families. He wrote legislation expanding the Violence Against Women Act. He authored the Two Strikes and You’re Out Child Protection Act, which cracks down on repeat child molesters, and the Debbie Smith Act', which assists law enforcement in modernizing DNA databases. He helped shape the Adam Walsh Act Child Protection and Safety Act.
Prior to his election to the House, Green served for six years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, where he chaired both the Judiciary Committee and Assembly Republican Caucus. He also served on the Board of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), and helped reform state housing policy. He was one of 4 legislators on the “SAVE Commission” which, patterned after Ronald Reagan’s Grace Commission, launched a number of major governmental reforms.
His legislative work has won him awards from a variety of groups such as the Wisconsin and American Farm Bureaus, US Chamber of Commerce, NFIB, NRA, Wisconsin Builders Association, State Medical Society, Citizens Against Government Waste, Watchdogs of the Treasury, and the Seniors Coalition.
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