Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1996-2013

Vice Chair, Center Aisle Caucus

Member, Congressional Coalition on Adoption

Co-Chair/Co-Founder, Congressional Rural Caucus

Member, National Republican Congressional Committee

Vice Chair, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly

Outreach Coordinator, Rural Health Care Coalition Western Caucus

Member, Small Business Advisory Committee, Federal Communications Commission, 1991-1992

Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, American Insurance Association, 1994-1996

Director of State Relations and Grassroots Programs, National Restaurant Association, 1991-1993

Deputy Communications Director, National Republican Congressional Committee, 1983-1990

Member, Advisory Board, Arneson Institute for Practical Politics and Public Affairs

Member, Advisory Committee, Children's Inn National Institutes of Health

Founding Member, Bipartisan Congressional Retreat

Board Member, Bread for the World

Co-Chair/Board Member, Congressional Hunger Center

Member, Copper Dome Society of Southeast Missouri State University

Member, First Presbyterian Church

Board Member, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

President, House of Representatives Prayer Breakfast

Member, National Guard and Reserve Components Congressional Members Organization

Member, Philanthropic Educational Organization Women's Service Group

Former Board Member, Presbyterian Children's Home

Life Trustee, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri

Chair, National Prayer Breakfast, 2005

Astrological Sign:

Virgo

Names of Grandchildren:

Margaret Browning Gilhooley, and Curt William Leger

Number of Grandchildren:

2