Please join the Chicago Daily Observer in welcoming Bart Stupak (D-MI) as Keynote Speaker for the Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

Rep. Stupak was elected in 1992 to represent Michigan’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thirty one counties make up the sprawling Northern Michigan district. It contains the entire Upper Peninsula as well as the northern part of the Lower Peninsula, making it one of the largest Congressional Districts in the nation. Michigan’s First Congressional District contains approximately half of the state’s land mass and has more shoreline – 1,613 miles – than any other Congressional District in the nation except Alaska. Stupak became the first Democrat in the 20th Century to serve successive terms in this Congressional District by winning re-election eight times in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

A graduate of Gladstone High School, Congressman Stupak holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in Lansing, Michigan. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Saginaw Valley State University in 1977, graduating magna cum laude, and he earned his Associate’s Degree from Northwestern Michigan Community College in Traverse City in 1972.

Bart was born on February 29, 1952. He lives in Menominee, Michigan, with his wife, Laurie. Their son, Ken, graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2006 and resides in California. The Stupaks also had a son, Bart Jr., who died in May 2000.

Congressman Stupak is recognized as a leader on health care issues, particularly as the author of the Stupak amendment which protects the rights of the infants and children.

The Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast offers a morning program intended to permit all people to attend and not significantly disrupt their day. The program seeks to be powerfully edifying and enriching to the participants and the hope is that the event will draw participants from every Illinois dioceses (Bellville, Springfield, Peoria, Rockford, Joliet and Chicago) and the uniate churches (Latin, Syro-Malabar, Byzantine, Malachite, Ukrainian, etc.).

The Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast hopes to contribute to the renewal, growth and development of a New Springtime of the Faith here in Illinois.

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